Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool...

It is all quiet there. There's nothing new, right now.

He said he killed a woman. He told us to be quiet because we will get into trouble too,

Plaxico Burress

He's kind of got a little quiet 'Eli swagger' about him. You can actually sense that he's being more vocal and he understands that it's his team.

He was a better shooter than anything. He was a quiet leader. He did it with his actions, and the respect he had for his teammates.

He was a quiet guy, but not in a weird way. Just quiet.

He was a quiet ground-breaker, ... Many of his accomplishments go unrecognized because he did things in a quiet way.

Carla Bruni

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

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

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.

Clea Duvall

I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.

Joel Davis

The quieter things were, the more things were going on,

William Shakespeare

Truth hath a quiet breast.

Rick Carlisle

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.

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.

Dale Spender

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

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.

Anne Rice

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

Anne Rice

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

Alicia Keys

Quiet moments recharge me.

Jane Austen

I was quiet but I was not blind.