Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.

I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

I know a lot of actors who live with kind of a soundtrack in their lives, even to go to the market. I'm not that kind of actor. I don't listen to songs. I actually like quiet.

I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.

I like to draw late at night when the house is quiet.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

I'll sit down for an hour or two a few days a week in a quiet place and brainstorm. The earlier in the day, the better, before the parade of distractions starts.

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from the audience, or it's so quiet you can hear a pin drop. I couldn't believe how easy acting was when there's an audience; after a few previews I almost couldn't do it without one.

I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

I'm a pretty quiet person.

I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

I'm a people person when I'm out, but I'm a homebody. I like my time and peace and quiet.

I'm looking forward to some peace and quiet. I fantasize about having a home, which I've kind of never had.

I'm kind of a quiet leader, and I just try to lead by example. But then sometimes you have to say something.

I'm kind of lame. I prefer quiet evenings at home, hanging out with my family.

I'm kind of quiet but when I put my helmet on, it's like you flip a switch. I'm ready to go.

I'm kind of shy and quiet. But I'm only shy in my personal life. If I'm working, somehow I'm not and it goes away.

I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read, and just get away and surf.

I'm not afraid to talk about God and it's something I have a faith in. But I feel his presence more in those really profound, quiet moments of solitude. I can't seem to get those as much around here in Nashville, so I go to seek them out. Iceland is probably the closest I ever felt to it. That place did a lot for my soul.

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.

I'm not the quiet sensitive little guy I was. I can't be. There's just too much after me.

I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

I'm really grounded and quite hippie, wanting to nurture and have children and be quiet.

I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.

I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.

I'm the quiet bass player.

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

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

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard.  Everyone has a listening point somewhere.  It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.

In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.

In order to understand God, you have to learn to listen. You're thoughts talk very loudly all the time. But God is very, very, very quiet. God doesn't speak through words or thoughts. God doesn't speak. God is silent.

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

In my office, I like it quiet, so I can concentrate.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.