Quotes About Quiet

You don't have to be noisy to be effective.

Personally, I don't think I have the time for a big noisy family, so maybe just one child.

I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.

I grew up in the countryside, in literally the middle of nowhere. We had one neighbor and a lot of sheep.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

I am nowhere near social media.

Making people laugh was the only thing I ever truly excelled at. But at home, I was so quiet with my family, which taught me to be really observant.

I don't really have a shell. I'm really not as quiet as people think I am. I'm really not that quiet. But I don't know, I would say I'm more observant.

How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a – Be very quiet, advised the duke, for it goes without saying. And, sure enough, as soon as they were all quite still, it began to move quickly through the streets, and in a very short time they arrived at the royal palace.

For an instant there was an ominous stillness, quieter and more silent than ever before, as if even the air was holding its breath.

The Doldrums, my young friend, are where nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes.

I think,' said Lyndall, 'that he is like a thorn-tree, which grows up very quietly, without any one's caring for it, and one day suddenly breaks out into yellow blossoms.

So when I feel overwhelmed, I usually go to a quiet place. A bathroom stall works wonders. I close my eyes, turn inward, and breathe until I can sense the still, small space inside me that is the same as the stillness in you, and in the trees, and in all things. I breathe until I can feel this space expand and fill me. And I always end up doing the exact opposite of screaming: I smile at the wonder of it all.

Sanki buras? herkesin unuttuÄŸu bir yerdi ve kar sessizce dünyan?n sonuna ya??yordu.

Mother, my neck aches and all is still.

Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing.

she wanted to find a place within the sounds where nobody could find her.

No, Professor, it aint nothin like that. You dont have to be virtuous. You just has to be quiet. I cant speak for the Lord but the experience I've had leads me to believe that he'll speak to anybody that'll listen. You damn sure aint got to be virtuous.

The boy was sitting quietly on the bunk, still wrapped in the blanket, watching. The man thought he had probably not fully committed himself to any of this. You could wake in the dark wet woods at any time.

It was still dark and the fire had long since died, still dark and quiet with that silence that seems to be of itself listening

Things will be better when everybody's gone. They will? Sure they will. Better for who? Everybody.

How loud small noises sound in a silence.

The world around them was as still as if it had used up all the words, as if all the tales there were to tell in this world had now been told.

so silent you could almost have forgotten he was there.