Quotes About Quiet

Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.

I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.

Sometimes you just have to be by yourself, you need a little space and time.

I walk around a lot secretly. Even when I use a car, I park it briefly and walk. It seems that I still need some time alone to think and sort out things myself.

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!

I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.

A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.

But when weariness finally forced him to be silent, he was no longer of use to his tormentors, and they sought amusement elsewhere

So I held on till all the late sounds had quit and the early ones hadn't begun yet; and then I slipped down the ladder.

And it is all as tranquil and reposeful as dreamland, and has nothing this-worldly about it—nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon. Until the unholy train comes tearing along—which it presently does, ripping the sacred solitude to rags and tatters with its devil's warwhoop and the roar and thunder of its rushing wheels—and

Qué apacible debía de ser, pensó, yacer y dormir y sonar por siempre jamás, con el viento murmurando por entre los árboles y meciendo las flores y las hierbas de la tumba, y no tener ya nunca molestias ni dolores que sufrir.

Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.

I... He struggled to answer. When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds. He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look? Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. There were stars, he said. They burned by eyes.

I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes? You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

She sang a song, but it was so quiet that Liesel could not make it out. The notes were born on her breath, and they died at her lips.

Quietly, he walked towards it with the matchbox in one hand, the candle in the other.

Who could step in while I take a break in your stock-standard resort-style vacation destination, whether it be tropical or of the ski trip variety? The answer, of course, is nobody

El libro se abrió... Una ráfaga de viento amplificada por la quietud de la noche.

In the morning's early hours, quiet voices were loud.

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

am not strong enough yet to stand much noise or excitement

And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried upon it.