I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don’t have anything to say. I’ve found if you’re suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.
I was always quiet and even timid.
My characters – no, make that most characters – are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.
I’m not sure what a conservative is. I don’t know whether a conservative is a guy that goes to bed too early or maybe doesn’t sleep long enough or just what the hell he might be. I don’t know. Maybe he’s a guy that – you know, he just wants to be real quiet.
I’ve gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I’ve gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don’t remember it being very heavy-handed.
I like to have quiet evenings and relax.
I think the amazing thing about ‘Twin Peaks’ was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
When you’re undocumented, you’re supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security – even though people don’t know that we do those things – and not say anything.
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
I love to garden and cook whenever I get the chance and escape anywhere that’s peaceful and quiet. My philosophy on living well is to always stay positive in life.
It’s nice to know that people are so interested in my life. But I have never shared anything with the media. I like to keep quiet.
I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
Throughout my high school years, I was very quiet, I didn’t have many friends. I distanced myself from a lot of people.
I’m not quiet, nor am I the class clown. I pick my moments.
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society – at least on the surface. There’s a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They’re not too loud, they’re not too quiet, but sometimes it’s a little too perfect.
Quiet is better than loud.
I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I’m working on, it’s never going to be an actual book. So until it’s close to done, I keep pretty quiet about my next stuff!
Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
I’m not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word’s meaning, or multiple meanings.
Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it’s a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
As much as the Congress is criticized – and a lot of it is well deserved – the fact is there are many quiet victories if you keep your head down and know how to maneuver in the process and get things done.
When I sit down to make a set list I usually think, ‘We’ll build it up here, take it down here, go into a quiet section here, explode here,’ in a way that there’s a flow and it doesn’t feel like shuffle on an iPod.
In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.
Introverts probably have a higher degree of sensitivity to outside stimulus and tend to back off. In your quiet shyness as a child, you end up with an accumulation of thoughts and ideas, building up big, imaginative worlds. You have to get it all out somehow, so it goes into your work.
Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.
I’ve travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you’re in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can’t – I’d end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I’d be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like it quiet.
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.
Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
It is the passion inside me that means I keep going. I love what I do, and I think I am lucky to do it. When I am riding a quiet country road, I hear the birds singing and think, ‘I am in my office now.’
You kept quiet… When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes – basketball, football – but I was kind of a momma’s boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural.
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
We’re living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It’s a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
It’s important to have quiet time and isolation.
I don’t think there’s an illustrator who’s as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt… but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
There’s always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you’re not hard, if you’re not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you’re not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Kurt and I weren’t the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.
I’m an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.
I do games of solitaire when I get home to quiet my spirits.
It’s very important that you tell someone when you are being bullied – someone that you trust. You should never be quiet when you are being bullied or when you see someone being bullied. It’s so important to stand up and say something.
I just want a quiet life. I think that’s what everybody says when they get older.
It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.
When I am off the field, I am the calm, very quiet kind of easy-sailing ocean, and then when I am on a hot streak with a cricket ball, I can be the most disastrous waters you have ever been in.
I definitely got into a lot of fights when I was a kid. I never understood it. I was one of those quiet kids. I never picked with no one.
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it’s so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there’s no noise other than nature – and it’s so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.
I carry earplugs and use them even when it’s quiet.
I always say to anybody who’s going over to America for the first time, ‘Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.’ Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody’s so quiet, scared to laugh. It’s like being in church.
I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.
