Quotes About Quiet

There was nothing I could say, so I said nothing.

There was a small stand of trees nearby, and from it you could hear the mechanical cry of a bird that sounded as if it were winding a spring. We called it the wind-up bird. Kumiko gave it the name. We didn't know what it was really called or what it looked like, but that didn't bother the wind-up bird. Every day it would come to the stand of trees in our neighborhood and wind the spring of our quiet little world.

Generally, I can't really do much without music playing - even writing or thinking. Peace and quiet means putting on a song.

If you're quiet, knowing that there's a culture of racism inside most police departments, and you're not saying anything, you are on the wrong side of history.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.

I wanted a house near my family in a quiet neighborhood with a front yard and a backyard that my dog will like.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

My training sessions were nice, calm, and quiet. Just me and my trainers in the gym.

I normally try to be tranquil on the pitch.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

In order to trust your vibes, you have to first be able to sense them—and to do this, you must quiet your mind.

I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.

Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.

Another explained, "I think I'd speak for any introvert when I say if you could hear all the thoughts running through an introvert's mind at any given moment—you'd feel like you'd just had your ear talked off for the last hour.

Brando said he'd noticed that powerful people spoke quietly, and Don Corleone's quiet calm and nearly inaudible speaking voice are key to the character. When Corleone speaks, you have to be quiet to hear him. What can we learn from Don Corleone (that doesn't involve killing people)? That quiet does have its own power, if we harness it.

Every introvert alive knows the exquisite pleasure of stepping from the clamor of a party into the bathroom and closing the door.

How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred; it wants name and fame. ... While you are feeling this inner cry, you try to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. If a thought enters your mind, you try to reject it. Consider this thought as a fly. When a fly comes to land on your arm, you don't allow the fly to remain; you just wave your hand and it goes away

Calm, quiet and uniting all the loose ends of your existence. You become the object of your perception.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

Der Mensch atmet leichter, wenn er das Maul hält.