Quotes About Quiet

When the time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.

Real intelligence is like a river; the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

quiet meant you could hear the gulls, the cormorants, the wind, and the waves. Those things brought him calm.

Okay, just be quiet for a second, would you?" He squatted down next to the baby and patted the baby's head, which only seemed to make him -- or was that her -- more angry.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

It's so good for you to think of nothing. I wish you could do it more often.

You are a modest man; you love quiet and independence, and have a delicacy and reserve in your temper which renders it impossible for you to elbow your way in the world, and be the herald of your own merits. Be content then with a modest retirement, with the esteem of your intimate friends, with the praises of a blameless heart, and a delicate, ingenuous spirit; but resign the splendid distinctions of the world to those who can better scramble for them.

was quiet but for the sound of a tractor laboring at the park's edge, cleaning leaves amid a stand of bare oak trees.

It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

Yeah, I know what the shrinks say: "Conflict and conflict resolution are the mainstays of human intimacy." That fatuous little axiom may be true, but it presupposes that human intimacy is a desirable thing. I have never been nearly as happy with somebody else in the room as I am when I'm by myself. It seems to me that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

[Y]ears of quiet bliss To me, fast-rooted on paternal land, Mated, yet childless. He had journeyed far Beyond the borders of my life...

I've come to the realization that you can entertain people both through making them laugh and making them feel. You can be quiet, and they can feel, and you will have scored as well.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

One important thing I recall about India was that it was quiet. It was never noisy in the way that life was noisy in London.

I was pretty dorky in high school. I was pretty much of a recluse.

I'm pretty reclusive. I'm a homebody.

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.

I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.

You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.

After a really hectic week, I hate going out on a Friday evening, so I'll always opt for a night at home.

I'm truly 95 percent a hermit.

I'm sort of a hermit.