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 ~
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
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 ~
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
~By Queen Victoria ~
My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
~By Lance Loud ~
Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.
~By Jayne Meadows ~
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
~By Don DeLillo ~
I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
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 ~
Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.
~By Richard Chamberlain ~
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
In quiet places, reason abounds.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
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 ~
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
~By Edward Coke ~
If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.
~By Martina Navratilova ~
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 ~
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
~By Andre Kostelanetz ~
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
~By Spike Milligan ~
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
~By Chief Joseph ~
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 ~
Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
~By Sean O'Casey ~
It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.
~By James Taylor ~
But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
~By James Baker ~
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
~By Bell Hooks ~
All quiet along the Potomac.
~By George B. McClellan ~
I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
~By Garth Ennis ~
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
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.
~By Ben Vereen ~
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 ~
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 ~
I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.
~By Jamie Redknapp ~
I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
~By Ali MacGraw ~
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 ~
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 ~
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
~By James Joyce ~
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
~By Billy Joel ~
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
~By Henry Walter Bates ~
My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
~By Robert Lynd ~
Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.
~By Jennifer Capriati ~
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 ~
I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.
~By Josh Hartnett ~
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.
~By Paul Kagame ~
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
~By Agatha Christie ~
When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
~By Zach Wamp ~
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
~By Robertson Davies ~
I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.
~By Ron Darling ~
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
~By Ralph Marston ~
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.
~By Franz Boas ~
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.
~By Ron Chernow ~
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.
~By Armand Assante ~
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 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 ~
Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.
~By Judy Holliday ~
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
~By Adelaide Anne Procter ~
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 ~
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 ~
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
~By Molly Ivins ~
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.
~By Brian Welch ~
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 ~
Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.
~By Robert Williams Buchanan ~
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
~By Earl Browder ~
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 ~
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.
~By David Amram ~
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
~By Charles de Lint ~
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
~By Robert Service ~
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
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.
~By Albert Camus ~
Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
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 ~
I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
~By Bill Bradley ~
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
~By Dawn Powell ~
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 ~
He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
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 ~
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
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 ~
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
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 ~
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 ~
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
~By Alice Walker ~
My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.
~By Tom Hanks ~
I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.
~By Greg Kinnear ~
There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.
~By John Lindsay ~
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