Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernst Toller

In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.

Fred Rogers

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

George Henry Lewes

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

Isabel Lucas

I’ve always been quiet, more of an observer.

I'm surprised. This is a really quiet place.

If there is no quiet in Israel, we will respond seven times.

I told her to be quiet so I could find out what was going on, and she told me she didn't have to.

Judy Holliday

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.

It's a very quiet film, it's all about quietness and relationships.

Joyce Carol Oates

The quiet people just do their work.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty.

Peter Zumthor

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

Lindsay Davenport

I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

Karl Popper

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

Minnie Driver

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

John le Carre

He has the gift of quiet.

Josh Radnor

Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't.

Juliet Marillier

With respect," said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, "my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.

Patrick Stump

Quiet IS the new loud.

Julia Quinn

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

Nelsan Ellis

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

Marquis de Sade

Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

Nikki Sixx

The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.

Neal A. Maxwell

We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.

Michel de Montaigne

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Kevin McCloud

Awesome is loud but awe is quiet.

Margaret Thatcher

Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we always reported on foreign affairs - we always had this quiet voice. It was so quiet sometimes I had to say 'speak up'. And he gave it in a way which wasn't exactly scintillating. And you know, foreign affairs are interesting. They affect everything that happened to our own way of life, and they are exciting. And so we just diverged.

Paul Reiser

Happiness is the quiet lull between problems.

Lauren Tarshis

In quiet moments, I love to read.

Ishmael Beah

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

J. K. Rowling

I like a quiet life, you know me.

Natalie Clifford Barney

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Keith Richards

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.