Quiet Quotes

• I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the stardom and celebrity that I can handle. But I also have peace and quiet. I am left alone. And I am not recognized everywhere I go and it's perfect. I can come and fill the theatres and I get on stage ... people say: "Well, oh yeah, that must be him," you know?

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Peace
  • Perfect

• A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Sky
  • Late
  • Larks

• Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Quiet
  • Hear
  • Genuine

• Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for ourselves every chance we get.

  

  Anne Ortlund
  • World
  • Moment
  • Gift

• The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

  

  Cato the Younger
  • Silence
  • Virtue
  • Tongue

• It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Fear
  • Kind
  • Drinking

• I’ve always been quiet, more of an observer.

  

  Isabel Lucas
  • Quiet
  • Observer

• A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.

  

  Charles Brent
  • Men
  • Waiting
  • Listening

• Quiet you kids. If I hear one more word, Bart doesn't get to watch cartoons, and Lisa doesn't get to go to college.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Kids
  • College
  • Quiet

• The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Speak
  • Quiet
  • Great Thing

• In the late 90s, there was a reverse. Everyone would stand stock still and be so attentive and quiet. But then, it was almost like, "C'mon people! Engage - make a show with us!" You can hear these different eras pass through in the recordings.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Different
  • Stock

• I hadn't made that movie before and when I ever met the real Joy Mangano, which happened because De Niro insisted we meet her and her father, that's what she felt like to us. She impressed us with her quiet, serene authority with herself.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Real
  • She
  • Movie

• A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Pain
  • Adversity

• Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.' 'The same thing happened in Holland,' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.' 'It helps to ask politely,' said Mr. Benedict

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Library
  • Lessons
  • Librarian

• There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Age
  • Cutting
  • Youth

• Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't.

  

  Josh Radnor
  • Love
  • Talk
  • Quiet

• We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Cold
  • Sympathy
  • Dignity

• Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Brain
  • Quiet
  • Sunshine

• Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world.

  

  William Morley Punshon
  • Heaven
  • Impossible
  • Heroism

• Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

  

  Josh Radnor
  • Expectations
  • Quiet
  • Dashed

• There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Power

• Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • People
  • Brain
  • Depression

• Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

  

  Willa Cather
  • World
  • Writing
  • Office

• Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Winter
  • Quiet
  • Hurry

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