Quotes About Quiet

Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me.

Be still and breathe.

Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.

sometimes you have to be alone to think and sometimes the best place for thinking is'int home.

There's always a calm before the storm...

They stood in reverential quiet, as they did most visits, but Mara heard Lillian whisper a fragment of an Emily Dickinson poem: From Cocoon forth a Butterfly As Lady from her Door Mara

Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet. —Tina Fey

And it had come from God, she was certain, for He answered most of her prayers that way. Unobtrusively. Quietly.

Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch…is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.

If you enter a library looking for a particularly quiet place to read, head straight for the philosophy section. Because no one likes to read philosophy, no one will be there, and you will be undisturbed to read, to write or just to think and keep watch, as I do and have always done.

Wishing is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake

There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven, in which the misfortune of one would stagger them all. It was a garment, this life. Its beauty outside, its warmth within.

To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

Our eyes can discover the peace and quiet, but that's no guarantee of reality.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

Let us have the luxury of silence.