Looking back now, I can see that my dad was a real fighter. A lot of people thought, ‘Why don’t you keep the Jewish stuff quiet?’ They were anti-Semitic Jews. People who were afraid. People who came here and made it and anglicized themselves and didn’t want to associate with their past.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
I think it’s nice to have New Zealand as a base for me… it’s this little island on the bottom of the Earth. It’s this nice, quiet place.
The domestic lives we live – which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making – help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.
The seas are quiet when the winds give o’er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
We’re trying to get the SEAL community back to where we think it should be – quiet professionalism.
People don’t necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.
Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
I go everywhere quiet – like a ninja. Always have done. Think big, move quiet.
It’s nice to have a quiet movie to give you time to meditate on an idea. A lot of movies don’t give you the space to feel anything.
I need to keep quiet and do my talking on the pitch.
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.
There’s nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.
They can’t find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.
You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.
Yes, I played inside the Taj Mahal, but the experience was also a quiet, inner experience.
I am not a quiet person.
I don’t know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet – it’s very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I’m not that good a writer to write through all that!
I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there’s always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet.
Well, it’s a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I’ll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
For me, nothing bad can happen on a football pitch. You could be growing up in chaos, everything could be going crazy around you, but if you have a ball at your feet, you stop thinking. Everything is quiet, peaceful.
Off stage, I’m very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.
Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that’s set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God’s gift of the Christ child.
Quiet is the new loud.
How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they will be noticed, and it will affect everyone’s time. I instantly spring on them and treat them as royalty, showing them around and introducing them to everyone so they seem special.
Keeping one’s eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that surface from which something more comes.
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
I am a really quiet person. I just like to be with my children and my family and being home. I live one day at a time, enjoying the best of life, just living.
I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.
I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
We’re told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There’s an inherent contradiction.
Everybody’s got a ‘thing.’ Some ‘things’ are nice and quiet. Some ‘things’ have fangs and claws. Some ‘things’ stink and have slobber everywhere.
I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It’s a little bit like an artist’s colony in the sense that there’s some sort of shared experience. There’s respect for quiet, more or less, but otherwise, there’s activity.
My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer’s started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer’s are the hardest because that person is aware that they’re losing awareness. And I think that that’s why my father started growing more and more quiet.
I’m quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.
I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.
If you were to look back at me as a school kid you’d see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
For 120 minutes, ‘Birdman’ floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
There’s nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It’s like when you go to the cinema – the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so big. The scale. Directors can pretty much do anything for those first few minutes.
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You’d be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can’t write.
I don’t think there’s much tolerance for people who are a little different or withdrawn or quiet. They always seem to be the ones who stick out the most, the ones who want to just shy away and withdraw.
The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.
My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet – something I don’t get very often.
My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.
Growing up, I wasn’t as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that’s why I chose acting: because it’s acceptable to have your feelings. It’s a place that they want you to feel. Whereas in life, growing up, it was ‘Be quiet!’ and ‘Keep it to yourself.’
If you’re quiet, and you don’t speak out, you’re never going to get anything accomplished.
But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn’t reach their soul anymore.
So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.
I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn’t think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.
I live a very quiet life, although I’m very urban and a diehard New Yorker.
It’s dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses – like those in a poem.
I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn’t see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn’t tell people.
I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.
