Quotes About Quiet

That quiet intensity really brings a lot of confidence to your team and I think intimidates a lot of other teams.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

I don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.

Normally, my birthdays are very quiet. I go to the temple with my family and later take blessing from my parents. A few friends come over to my house, and we talk about the year gone by.

Because my lower body is quiet, I need a full shoulder turn to generate power and speed. Keep your tempo smooth, and with the quiet lower body, you don't have to worry about losing your balance.

It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.

Bless something small but infinite and quiet.

Bless something small but infinite and quiet. — Robert Creeley, from "A Prayer," The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975 . (University of California Press; 2nd ed. edition October 23, 2006)

Love comes quietly, finally, drops about me, on me, in the old ways. What did I know thinking myself able to go alone all the way.

Fall was slipping quietly into winter

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

The squashy earth-colored sofas, the tall cups of American froth, the wholesome young people working with quiet efficiency

His father's a raging alcoholic and his friends – well, people of that age, they're all scared of what's happened, I think. Anyway, the doctors want him kept quiet just now.

Be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.

There is only one thing to be done," went on the old lady, "be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.

sometimes the best engineers come in bodies that can't talk

As they put it, "once the door to the stall is closed, it is transformed into the occupying individual's private, albeit temporary, retreat from the demands of public life.

My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. – Isaiah 32:18

Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. – Mark 1:35

The day will come when man will have to fight noise as inexorably as cholera and the plague