Quiet Quotes

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

I'm really grounded and quite hippie, wanting to nurture and have children and be quiet.

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

I'm the quiet bass player.

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season.

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.