William Hamilton Maxwell Quotes
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller
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When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
Ian Axel
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I like a quiet life.
Wendy Cope
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
Quentin Blake
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
Carli Lloyd
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I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
Kate Bush
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So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
Randall Terry
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
Walter Murch
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
Edmund Waller
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
Frances Bean Cobain
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
Pat Nixon
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
Sam Smith
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Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant alphonso mango salad.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.
Vincent Van Gogh
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There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I've always loved jazz.
Rita Coolidge
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I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
Carli Lloyd
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The New Nordic diet originated in 2004, when the visionary chefs Rene Redzepi and Claus Meyer called a symposium of regional chefs to address the public's increasing consumption of processed foods, additives, highly refined grains, and mass-produced poultry and meat.
Kate Christensen
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I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.
William Hamilton Maxwell