Quotes About Quiet

I'm from Victorville - it's about an hour-and-a-half away from Los Angeles, up in the desert. They call it Victimville because it's kind of violent. It's a beautiful place, though. It's quiet.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

I believe in doing my work quietly and not make a big hullabaloo about it. That is how I operate. I don't see any other reason to be visible for; I like it when people talk about my work - that is what I am here for.

maybe only those who faced death daily were able to recognize that courages could be as quiet as a man's thoughts

The library, I presume," he said quietly. "I've a fondness for libraries.

Had peace and quiet become so rare that when finally found they could be mistaken for something grotesque and unnatural? It would appear so.

Shakespeare: …the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache.

Haven't you ever heard of an artist's muse?" the barman asked. "They all seem to either have one or want one. Me, all I want is peace and quiet.

here, here, there was peace. The deep peace that comes not just with quiet, but with familiarity.

Y las bibliotecas: silenciosas, tranquilas. Un refugio para el caos de la vida adolescente.

A peace above all earthly dignities," she quoted. Then turned back to the room. "A still and quiet conscience.

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour.

I'm having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.

The moon. There's no other moon like one on a clear New Mexico night. It rises over the Sandias and soothes the miles and miles of barren desert with all the quiet whiteness of a first snow.

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

a great silence settled over the mountain.

Silence has a sound

It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve.

It's been forever.' The words are quiet, hidden against his shoulder. 'That's because,' Oliver says, 'you were waiting for me.' He slips aside the sweater again and kisses my collarbone.

bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve.

Sergeant Berry was never enthusiastic about the countryside. It was far too empty for his liking, too quiet, too open. It needed bricks. Lots of bricks, walls of them, making houses and factories, cluttering up all those wide spaces where the sky was visible.