Quotes About Quiet

It was a quiet day in Tombstone.

Worm was old; he was a man of silence. He could speak prophecy and make spells, but mostly he was quiet and alert, a pleasure to travel with.

People get more work done when they don't talk.

When the world goes quiet again, it will take everything I am not to allow the grief of his loss to level me.

We mutinied quietly, using every lesson we'd been taught by every person who'd ever used us for their own benefit.

I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while. It was my turn to be quiet. Did you take it? Would I be calling you if I had? Maybe, I said. He laughed. True, but I'm not going to take it. Why not? Friendship. Try again, I said. I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you. Comforting...

Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart.

Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.

The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

The books I'd checked out of the library earlier in the week were still stacked on my bureau, whispering my name and begging to be read.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could've been a strangled gasp. Above all, it was quiet, and it seemed to have no source. It whispered.

alles wäre sauber und still, leer und kinderlärmfrei gewesen. Aber willst du mit vierzig, mit fünfzig noch so leben? hat Simon gefragt, und ich habe nichts geantwortet. Ja, vielleicht will ich.

Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.

In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.

I appreciate not being interrupted in the middle of thinking about nothing.

You can appreciate things at four in the morning that would go right past you during the day.

Why do you stay here? What's here, Rory? Peace, quiet, birds. Lots of birds.

My day begins at dawn as I take my cup of strong black espresso outside to watch the sunrise. I learned this ritual from my mother, who worked in a bread shop. Bakers are the great philosophers of the world, mostly because they have to get up early. When the world is quiet, great art is created - or, at the very least, conceptualized. Now is the moment to sketch, make notes, and dream.

Niima was a functioning armpit of a town and nothing more, a place where no one asked questions and everyone went quietly about their own business.

Without downtime, we might not physically die, but we will die psychologically, emotionally, spiritually. In downtime, not only are we making sense of the events of the day, we are making sense of our lives. We are combing through the thousands of hours and days of our lives to find those experiences and thoughts that have personal meaning to us, that speak to us, sometimes in that quiet, whispering voice.

Robert Black: ...looking forward to it. Sounds like his writings have taught you a lot... Randall Carver: ...Yes. Dunsany's work teaches subtlety, concealing momentous events in otherwise quiet passages.

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

I don't mess around with the men in the coven, especially my Shadowblades," she said with quiet finality. Flirting was one thing but anything more, it was a mistake of epic proportions. His eyes narrowed and he gave a slow shake of his head. "That is all right then. Because I want so much more than just to mess around.