Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Karl Popper

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

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.

John le Carre

He has the gift of quiet.

Josh Radnor

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

Lord Byron

A quiet conscience makes one so serene.

Lord Byron

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

Patrick Stump

Quiet IS the new loud.

Mark Russell

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

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.

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?

Joyce Carol Oates

The quiet people just do their work.

Laurie Helgoe

When a quiet introvert talks, heads turn, and that's power.

Ray Comfort

George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.

Walter Kirn

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

Zig Ziglar

Take time to be quiet.