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Quotes About Quiet

I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.
~ James Ellroy
So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.
~ Jennifer Ehle
Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.
~ Viola Davis
Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.
~ Russell Brand
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.
~ Alessia Cara
Look at 'Dulhe Raja.' It was a film made very quietly on the sidelines, and suddenly, when the film was released, it struck gold. I never expected the film to do well.
~ Raveena Tandon
I'm so boring and grounded, and I like quiet, and I like structure, and I like goals. I couldn't be more opposite from Jack McFarland.
~ Sean Hayes
I had never been much for outdoor activities.
~ Amanda Blake
I'm not super outgoing, but I think the biggest thing I can do is lead by example.
~ Christian Pulisic
I'm boring. I'm also a bit reticent and shy but very calm overall.
~ Sanya Malhotra
never seen real darkness, not in the city, but how, if you stood peeing off the cabin porch on a moonless night, or took a walk through the woods where the treetops stitched out the stars, you could almost forget you were there, you felt invisible. Country dark, his mother called it.
~ Unknown
She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.
~ Tom Perrotta
I just wanted peace and quiet. So I waded into the ocean with a bellar in my hand. The waves were cold and kept smacking my clothes, higher and higher, until they knocked my drink out of my hand. Soon, my hair was wet and sticking to the back of my neck. Then I blacked out.
~ Tommy Lee
The Hemulen, moaning piteously, thrust his nose into the sand. "This has gone too far!" he said. "Why can't a poor innocent botanist live his life in peace and quiet?" "Life is not peaceful," said Snufkin, contentedly.
~ Tove Jansson
When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If Katri came in, they were quiet and waited for her to leave. The back door would close, and Katri would have gone. "Does your sister read our books?" Anna wanted to know. "No. She reads literature.
~ Tove Jansson
The caretaker liked the evenings and the nights. He didn't need much sleep and often sat by himself in the peace and quiet of the lake shore for hours. He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.
~ Tove Jansson
There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that's a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don't fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything's quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear.
~ Tove Jansson
You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.
~ Tracy Chevalier
the blue hours between three and five
~ Tracy K. Smith
Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as . . . as . . ." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
They say that memories fade with time but I don't believe that's true. You carry them with you like stones in your pocket. Sometimes when it's quiet you take them out and roll them between your fingers. Then you put them back in your pocket, safe again. You don't leave them behind.
~ Unknown
I'mjustsayingshe'dbeallright," he mumbled, subsiding.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
All right, shutting up now,
~ Tui T. Sutherland