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Quotes About Quiet

Shhh," he said again.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The only scenes I can stand in any of the Star Wars films are the quiet scenes in the second one, The Empire Strikes Back. Or rather, it used to be the second one, before the fourth one became the first one, thus making the second one the third one.
~ Nick Hornby
Maybe Grodzenski was showing me, with his quiet pride, the reason he hummed a little while he worked.
~ Nicole Krauss
I think you always write what you love. Whether it's your grandmother or gourmet cooking or mountains and rivers. Sunsets kissing the tallest building or chipmunks scattering off to bed. I like the quiet. And I like the sound of the quiet. I'm a mountain girl. I listen and make lists of what I hear.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Night is a great gift from God he said.It is the mother of man and comes quietly and tenderly to cover him.It rests its cool hand on his forehead and effaces the day's cares from his body and soul.Brothers its time to surrender ourselves to night's embrace
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I am always disgusted by the world. The more that time passes the more I become increasingly broody and tight-lipped. I have so many things in mind and so much that I plan to do that an entire human lifetime is barely enough for me to finish everything I'm thinking, and to set it down in writing. That's why I have an absolute need for countryside, quiet, solitude.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.
~ Nora Roberts
Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.
~ Nora Roberts
He turned his head, kissed the top of her head. I love you. It sounds lovely in bed, in the dark, when everything's quiet. Because it's true. And it'll be true in the morning.
~ Nora Roberts
She kept to herself because solitude soothed her.
~ Nora Roberts
She liked her life simple and private.
~ Nora Roberts
quietly. "To the cliffs and caves, while we have the sun." "There you go. They can't come out. Nothing
~ Nora Roberts
alone and let me sleep.
~ Nora Roberts
In reading he found solitude. In reading he could dispel the blare of the world.
~ Christos Tsiolkas
You could choke on the silence.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
With all the seats empty, you could pretend everyone's just gone to the bathroom.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No Tie Fighters. No blasts across the bow of his X-Wing. No X-Wing, in fact, and though he loves flying one, it's nice to be out. No Death Star--and here, Wedge shudders, because he helped take down two of those things. Some days that fills him with pride. Other days it's something else, something worse. Like he's drawn back to it. The fight still going on around him. But that isn't today. Today it's quiet. Wedge like's the quiet.
~ Chuck Wendig
A life of usefulness, literature and religion, was not by any means a life of event.
~ Claire Harman
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
~ Clement Clarke Moore
Gene Seagram was a tall lanky man, with a quiet voice and a courteous manner, and, except for a large, flattened nose, he could almost have passed as an unbearded Abe Lincoln.
~ Clive Cussler
One of the radio stations sometimes played the theme to the Andy Griffith Show...The song was a tiny, quiet piece of America carved out of the rest. No fire hoses, no need for the National Guard.
~ Colson Whitehead
In his life, Donald wrapped himself in a kind of quiet that, depending on the observer, signaled imbecility or a reservoir of mystery.
~ Colson Whitehead
His cousin Freddy brought him in on the heist one hot night in early June. It was such a pretty block and on certain nights when it was cool and quiet it was as if you didn't live in the city at all.
~ Colson Whitehead
It is safe in here in the eye of the storm.
~ Colson Whitehead