Quotes About Quiet

Fenwick, sitting down to

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

She swishes her arms back and forth. "Okay." Her voice is small and quiet like a mourning dove, like the soft gray on a mourning dove's back.

On deadline days, though, "my best time is around eleven at night. There is absolutely no distraction to be had. You're pretty much shackled to your desk." She pauses. "There's something really nice about that.

Silence was the key to self-preservation.

El problema es que ella piensa todo el tiempo, noche y día. Su pensamiento hace ruido, la molesta, la «sobrehabita». Le encantaría llegar a un pacto con él para tener por fin un poco de tranquilidad. Pensar sin más. Dejarse llevar por su tendencia natural y no «pensar en».

Killer eyes," he repeated quietly. It was a minute before he started talking again. The guys waited with their tongues practically hanging out. "The beast went underwater, and for a second I thought maybe it'd decided I

But he was fine keeping mostly to himself.

quiet streets of his neighborhood, his dog, Zeke, trotting right beside him. He was studying an arrow-

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

She recognized it at once: love, one-way deep adoration that bounced off and did not bounce back; careful, quiet love that didn't care and went on anyway.

She recognized it at once: love, one-way deep adoration that bounced off and did not bounce back; careful, quiet love that didn't care and went on anyway. It was too familiar to be surprising

She could not mistake it. She recognized it at once: love, one-way deep adoration that bounced off and did not bounce back; careful, quiet love that didn't care and went on anyway.

The sound of his car as it whines out of the driveway, then speeds away, has the ring of finality; all of them hear it. Silence settles over the house like ash.

Years of yearning had made her sensitive, the way a starving dog twitches its nostrils at the faintest scent of food. She could not mistake it. She recognized it at once: love, one-way deep adoration that bounced off and did not bounce back; careful, quiet love that didn't care and went on anyway.

Voleva stare sola, voleva isolarsi dal baccano; e nel suo ambiente non si può star soli, non si può far da soli se non levandosi di mezzo.

Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

There is no time like the very early morning for subtle and mysterious deeds.

I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.

Let sleeping dogs lie—who wants to rouse 'em?

Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.

There is nothing half so green that I know anywhere, as the grass of that churchyard; nothing half so shady as its trees; nothing half so quiet as its tombstones.

Quiet people avoid the question of the Presidency, for there will be a new election in three years and a half, and party feeling runs very high: the great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly the acrimony of the last election is over, the acrimony of the next one begins;

They passed very quietly along the yard; for no one was there, though many heads were stealthily peeping from the windows.