Quotes About Quiet

You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.

Most of my work is done when everyone else is asleep.

I get really excited thinking about being in the world without a lot of people.

I just want to be left alone.

I'm not one for the limelight I suppose.

Losers don't get to talk, man.

You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.

I'm just not a loud person. I don't like to showboat. I'm not rowdy.

I learned what it is to lead - and above all learnt that leadership is more about being strong on the inside than being loud on the outside.

I don't really go out. I don't know, it just doesn't really do anything for me. Being around a loud environment with a bunch of people is just not my thing.

I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.

I'm generally a low-key guy.

I'm very low-key.

I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.

And slept peacefully.

Helena was very quiet these days. She seemed pleased about the baby, talked from time to time about plans for their lives to come, but her liveliness had gone. Future life and past losses coexisted in her, two halves of a single experience, and she bore her grief and her hope in a subdued manner.

El silencio donde moraban sus demonios.

It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

It's true our lives can pass small and unnoticed by the masses, and we are no less dignified for having lived quietly. In fact, I've come to believe there's something noble about doing little with your life save offering love to a person who is offering it back.

At Crest Hill, your dog plays so hard all day, they are eager to lie down at night. We have three full-time staff members throwing tennis balls and enticing dogs to run and play so they're far too distracted to realize they're anywhere other than a second home. This means that by the end of the day all the other dogs are eager to sleep too, and so your dog rests comfortably. You won't believe how quiet our kennels are once we put the dogs to bed at 8 p.m.

She stood motionless like that for

There had been no noise from any other part of the apartment, but that didn't exclude the possibility of Paolo's presence, especially if she had given her soul over to reading. He sometimes told her that Attila could storm through the house and she'd not notice if she were reading. She had most recently disputed this by claiming that it would depend on the book. Her door was open, so he went in. And found her on the sofa, with Henry James.

It would take, he calculated, more than an hour. First a cream-filled swan and a coffee at Tonolo, then the walk to Campo San Barnaba and the store that sold the good cheese and the bread from Puglia. He had fled his office in search of peace and quiet, seeking some evidence that sanity still existed in a world of violence and crime, and his wife suggested they spend an hour eating pastry and buying a loaf of bread. He leaped at the chance.