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Quotes About Quiet

The song died in his mouth.
~ Ted Hughes
I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again.
~ Tennessee Williams
It's the quiet ones like you who are the most dangerous and cunning." "Me?" Elizabeth asked in disbelief. "I'm not the least bit quiet." "Perhaps not, but you do choose your words carefully." "Well, yes," she said with an unconscious tilt of her head. "I'm clumsy enough in body without tossing my mouth into the mixture.
~ Julia Quinn
Religion will recede not by atheists shouting condemnation, but by the quiet voice of reason slowly making itself heard.
~ Julian Baggini
Lord, let not our souls be busy inns that have no room for thee or thine, But quiet homes of prayer and praise, where thou mayest find fit company, Where the needful cares of life are wisely ordered and put away, And wide, sweet spaces kept for thee; where holy thoughts pass up and down And fervent longings watch and wait thy coming.
~ Julian of Norwich
I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.
~ Julie Andrews
I made friends easily, probably because I was spontaneous and average, which didn't intimidate people. It's the quiet ones kids are unsure about.
~ Julie Gonzalez
Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.
~ Julie Gregory
I found the project to be a bit quiet (that is, dull), which may have led to the manuscript's current confabulation—a pseudo autobiography in which the speaker portrays herself as a fifteen-year-old girl/cheetah amalgam.
~ Julie Schumacher
yo quisiera verlos quietos, verlos a mis pies y quietos –un poco el sueño de todo dios, Andrée, el sueño nunca cumplido de los dioses–, Carta a una señorita en París.
~ Julio Cortazar
ADELAIDE (English) Nobel and quiet.
~ June Rifkin
I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change.
~ Junot Diaz
and stepped into the hall, sealing the door and the voices of the children behind her. A blast of quiet that felt like noise;
~ Justin Cronin
patient striving with tolerances in the quiet war against error.
~ K. J. Parker
To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
~ Kai Bird
Humble is such a lonely word.
~ Kak Sri
I keep to myself a little bit more, I have that more quiet sexiness, quiet confidence going and I think that does intrigue people.
~ Michelle McCool
I think that quiet lends itself to that kind of in-your-own-head introspection.
~ Fab Moretti
Yeah, I'm quiet and introspective.
~ John Fetterman
People who know me personally know me as an introvert.
~ Amy McGrath
I'm an introvert.
~ Sarah Dunn
As a person, I am an introvert.
~ Sobhita Dhulipala
When I was at the Performance Center, I was super hated for probably two or three months because I'm a quiet guy. I'm very much an introvert and it shocks people when they see what I do on TV because I'm verbose and I talk a lot.
~ Eli Drake
By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi