Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

I had learnt from going to Houghton that to make a room quiet, to make it harmonious, you never wanted to have only one 'mouvement' thng like the Savonnerie rug that would stand out. You must have 'mouvement' everywhere.

I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

I have worked with some horrible idiots in my life. You learn the pattern of how architects work and the thing is not to fight it. Just to be very quiet, let them get on with it and let them really mess it up.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

I have to say, our kind of music was always a struggle live. Quiet vocals and really loud drums and guitars, it was quite tricky. It still can be. I'm slightly amazed that other bands say that, because I'm still like, "Oh God, what am I doing?

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

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 just want to live in peace and quiet.

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

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 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'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 live a generally quiet life, as it were.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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