Quiet Quotes

All quiet along the Potomac.

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

There's just no quiet in Vegas.

There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.