Quotes About Hush

PLEEZ BE QUITE IN THE LIBERY PEPLE R TRYING TO GET HI!

Many earnest young writers with a flow of adjectives and a passion for detail have attempted to describe the quiet of a great city at night, when a few million people within it are sleeping, or ought to be. They work in the clang of a distant owl car, and the roar of an occasional "L" train, and the hollow echo of the footsteps of the late passer-by. They go elaborately into description, and are strong on the brooding hush, but the thing has never been done satisfactorily.

A predawn hush had come over the desert basin. He looked up. Straight overhead, the stars were a sequin shawl flung over blue-black. Low on the southern horizon, the night's second moon peered through a thin dust haze--an unbelieving moon that looked at him with a cynical light.

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.

The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.

Silence is the language of inertia.

Stella, hush up. Be a witch, not a bitch, for the love of heaven.

At night the grackle Love will start To shriek and shrill, Nor will he once be still Till he has wide awake the backward heart. So selfish Love, Go hush; Feathers and claws take off Or seek some bush.

Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

Please let me go, I won't tell...

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

don't tell mama...

I have to say, self-servingly, I downloaded my own comics. I downloaded 'Batman: Hush.'

This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affections glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn

Ein paar Sekunden lang herrschte Totenstille. Es war so leise, als würden selbst die Möbel die Luft anhalten.

Churches are vessels of hush, as well as everything else they are, and when I block out the distractions of vision, the silence is almost shockingly loud.

Hush, little bright line, don't you cry You'll be a clich

It may be, of course, above all, that what suddenly broke into this gives the previous time a charm of stillness—that hush in which something gathers or crouches. The change was actually like the spring of a beast.

SHE COULDN'T have said what it was, in the conditions, that renewed the whole solemnity, but by the end of twenty minutes a kind of wistful hush had fallen upon them, as before something poignant in which her visitor also participated. That was nothing verily but the perfection of the charm—or nothing rather but their excluded disinherited state in the presence of it. The

There was, indeed, no life. Stillness and silence ruled here. In fact Tiffany, who cared a lot about getting words right, would have said it was a hush, which is not the same as silence. A hush is what you get in cathedrals at midnight.

Haud yer wheesht, woman." "Hold my what?" "It means 'hush,' Jessica. Just hush. Would it kill you to hush?

It's too quiet, Barrons growls. I concur. The hush that accompanies a once-in-a-century snowstorm, when the world is so densely carpeted with feet and feet of drifts that it mutes all acoustics and makes you feel like you might be the only person alive, muzzles the land.

From what I can gather, there's quite a lot you don't like talking about!