Quotes About Quiet

Never in my life have I had a teacher tell me to be quiet because I was talking to somebody in class! It was the best feeling in the world! I felt like the rest of the kids.

It's so quiet, and empty, when he's left. I feel like a landscape, a ground without a figure.

I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light.

You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

I'm going to be going to a secluded spot where no one can find me - NBC prime time.

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Life had been so very quiet since. And so very dull, a deep inner voice added.

For very pride's sake she had kept quiet about the humiliation that had ravaged her life. There was all the horror of being pitied if one spoke out.

Algunos días eran tan tranquilos que al cabo de una semana era imposible recordar lo que había sucedido en su transcurso. Otros estaban tan llenos de acontecimientos que era imposible creer que veinticuatro horas dieran para tanto.

the slightest noise

Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness— and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing; and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.

There was silence.

at last she drew on her gloves, straightened her hat, and went away with that odd self-possession which seems to characterize all the older women of the Crescent. Time takes its toll of them, death and tragedy come inevitably, but they face the world with quiet faces and unbroken dignity.

Funny, one somehow imagines her snuffing quietly out now, the way the moon would if the sun vanished.

take me where I may forget myself, my existence, and all the world.

the city usually only dulled and interrupted him. He required quiet, and to keep himself to himself, more than any writer he'd known. He was a shy beast who loved his burrow.

How silent lies the world Within fair twilight furled, Bringing such sweet relief! A quiet room resembling, Where, without fear or trembling, You sleep away day's grief.