Top 490 Quiet Quotes

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

As a naturally reserved and quiet person, it’s definitely a challenge being thrust into this atmosphere of celebrity and everything that comes along with that. Some parts I’m resisting more than others but can’t for much longer, so I’m just trying to find a way to make sense of it all.

I think I’m a spiritual person. I don’t really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.

What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it’s a quiet job and people don’t really understand it.

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

I was taught when there’s somethin’ you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin’ to complain about.

Time for creative ideation and quiet reflection is as much a luxury as is the physical beauty of the space you live in.

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, ‘If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.’

I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude… I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I’m still pondering.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

I don’t take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over… Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development.

My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here’s an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don’t have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They’re out there. It’s harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

One of the strangest things that used to happen at half time was that you’d come in, and you would have to sit down and be quiet. Get your drink, your energy bars or whatever, and sit down.

I’ve always been quiet, more of an observer.

I can imagine no sweeter way to end one’s life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power – far from the demands of business – out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.

The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can’t just lead quiet lives.

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

I’m a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that’s good.

‘Cunnamulla’ is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.

A lot of stuff I was reading in mythology was about how women used to be taught to be wild. The wild woman was an essence that existed in the world. We’re still coming back from many years of us being chiseled out to be identical and quiet.

My dad was a regular dad. At home, he wasn’t Bonzo the animal. He was a very intellectual, quiet chap – not the beast we all know.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it’s a quiet town.

I wanted the opportunity to play for Tom Osborne. Here we are in the locker room at half-time, gathering around Coach Osborne. It grows quiet, and I’ll never forget what he said. He said, ‘Let’s get this over with.’

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair.

Sometimes it was so quiet, it’s frightening. It really prioritizes things.

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

I’m very quiet off stage. I think I’m a pretty boring person. I’m not super talkative; I spend a lot of my time running and zoning out. I spend so much time trying to write jokes and ‘be on,’ so when I’m finally off stage, I just want to sit.

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.

The music that I’m known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite – I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.

I don’t like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, ‘The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,’ almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges.

I’m so boring and grounded, and I like quiet, and I like structure, and I like goals. I couldn’t be more opposite from Jack McFarland.

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

When you’re listening to the radio, you’re hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and ‘Say Something’ makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

I love how quiet and calm Milwaukee is.

I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, – as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.

If I could go back in time and give Rookie C.J one piece of wisdom, it would be that sometimes less is more. Off the court, sometimes it’s just better to shut up and be quiet.

I fail frequently – I just try to keep it quiet.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn’t believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

In Kansas, people are reserved, quiet, taciturn.

Here’s a thing that’s going to drive me absolutely crazy: the trucks! They can put people on the moon, but they can’t make a quiet truck!

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.