Famous Quotes & Sayings

They did what they had to do. It was a quiet ride home.

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.

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.

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.

Julia Quinn

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

Paul Reiser

Happiness is the quiet lull between problems.

Lauren Tarshis

In quiet moments, I love to read.

Neal A. Maxwell

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

Nelsan Ellis

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

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.

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.

Michel de Montaigne

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

James Patterson

Iggy: "Now what? Who you gonna call?" A quiet voice in the hallway outside: "Ghostbusters!" (Captain Perry and John groan) John: "That phrase is ruined forever,

Ellen Page

When I feel strongly about something, I'm not so quiet.

Henri Matisse

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.

Norman Reedus

I’m a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.

Michael Caine

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

Martin Yan

I enjoy the quiet life.

Terrell Owens

I've always been pretty much a quiet person. When I was little, I got picked on a lot. After I went through all that, I pretty much kept to myself.

George B. McClellan

All quiet along the Potomac.

Patricia Highsmith

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Mayim Bialik

I'm a pretty quiet person.

John Owen

Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

Mitch Albom

Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?

John Entwistle

I ain't quiet.. everybody else is too loud.

Lindsay Davenport

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