It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
~By Kingman Brewster, Jr. ~
But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.
~By Dorothy Height ~
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.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
~By John Selden ~
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
~By Chief Joseph ~
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
~By Herman Hesse ~
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
~By George A. Smith ~
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.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.
~By David R. Brower ~
People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
~By Dana Hill ~
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
~By James Joyce ~
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
~By Spike Milligan ~
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.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
~By Marc Anthony ~
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
~By Earl Warren ~
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.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
~By Davy Jones ~
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.
~By Demetri Martin ~
In quiet places, reason abounds.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
~By Sean O'Casey ~
That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.
~By Liz Phair ~
It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.
~By Brenda Blethyn ~
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
~By William Wordsworth ~
The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
~By Gustav Stickley ~
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
~By John Major ~
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season.
~By Gil Gerard ~
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
~By Joseph Addison ~
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
~By Candice Bergen ~
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
~By Molly Ivins ~
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
~By John Muir ~
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.
~By Carly Simon ~
I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
~By Olivia Newton-John ~
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
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.
~By Bruce Dickinson ~
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
~By Ieyasu Tokugawa ~
First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
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.
~By Margery Allingham ~
I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.
~By Joe E. Lewis ~
The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
~By Agatha Christie ~
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
~By Robertson Davies ~
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.
~By Freya Stark ~
In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.
~By Minnie Driver ~
I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.
~By Eva Marie Saint ~
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.
~By Patti Davis ~
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
~By John Ruskin ~
If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
~By Johnny Rotten ~
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
~By Philip Gibbs ~
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.
~By Donald Cargill ~
When we lose our liberties, it does not happen in one dramatic moment, but gradually and quietly.
~By John E. Moss ~
You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.
~By Paul Kagame ~
I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.
~By Mel Torme ~
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
~By Arthur Golden ~
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
~By Erich Segal ~
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
~By Agatha Christie ~
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
~By Peter Drucker ~
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.
~By William O. Douglas ~
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~By Helen Keller ~
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
~By Queen Victoria ~
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
~By Michael Caine ~
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
~By Ann Landers ~
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
~By Clifford Odets ~
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
~By John Bunyan ~
Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.
~By Crystal Waters ~
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.
~By LaToya London ~
I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
~By Dennis Rodman ~
They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.
~By James Herriot ~
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
~By Arundhati Roy ~
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
~By Charles Dickens ~
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
~By Saint Augustine ~
People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.
~By Bruce Hornsby ~
Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!
~By Michael McKean ~
I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.
~By Marie Windsor ~
Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.
~By Jonathan King ~
I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.
~By Jerry Goldsmith ~
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
~By Charles W. Eliot ~
I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
~By Dan Hicks ~
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
~By Dion Boucicault ~
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