Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Ferry

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Ai Weiwei

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Bob Newhart

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

Ed Begley, Jr.

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

Dee Dee Ramone

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

Diego Della Valle

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

Agnetha Faltskog

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Charlie Munger

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A grave is such a quiet place.

Barry Sanders

I really love peace and quiet.

Aung San Suu Kyi

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

Brian Blessed

The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

Ashley Greene

When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

(Miranda) can't sit quiet for very long, so she'd be talking to somebody.

Tommy Bond

We didn't talk about it. It was real quiet in the dugout.

She was a frail, beautiful, unassuming woman ... She always had a quiet insistence on the rightness of what she was doing.

She was quiet and shy ... she was a very serious person,

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The quiet sense of something lost

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The noonday quiet holds the hill.

Aldous Huxley

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

Agatha Christie

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

Rick Carlisle

One of the reasons it seemed like a quiet 37 was his shooting percentage. Unfortunately, we couldn't get him under control.

Jane Austen

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Carla Bruni

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

Albert Brooks

When you improvise on the spot, people are very reluctant to have soft moments or quiet moments or sad moments because they're trying to fill up the spaces. So they always go towards, "How come you're late?! You're supposed to have my shirt ready! You call this a dry cleaner?!" That's what happens. That's why improvising on the spot gets very dicey.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

Daniel Radcliffe

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

Damian Lewis

Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

Douglas Coupland

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

Ang Lee

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

Christopher Paolini

...even the donkeys were quiet.

Christopher Paolini

No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.