Quotes About Quiet

There always needs to be some excitement and some peace and quiet - otherwise you'll have a heart attack.

I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.

When I'm in L.A., I kind of go crazy in the middle of the night when it's, like, completely quiet.

No matter how happy and peaceful you can be at a certain time, you always have this - at least, I do - paranoia or catastrophic thought that even now that I have all this peace and quiet, what's the next challenge? What's coming next? On a very human level, I think most people can identify with that.

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

I've always been quiet, more of an observer.

I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.

I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout.

Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.

There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

When I sit down to make a set list I usually think, 'We'll build it up here, take it down here, go into a quiet section here, explode here,' in a way that there's a flow and it doesn't feel like shuffle on an iPod.

I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive!

The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.

I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.