Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.

I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.

I don't like golf. It's not for me, it's too quiet.

I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.

I don't really like L.A. much anymore. It's a hideous city. The weather's nice sometimes. It's just too crowded for me and too claustrophobic and too aggressive and too scary, and too chaotic. Did I say chaotic already? I like the country. I like quiet.

I dont think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess Im quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. Im certainly not the quiet reflective type.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

I enjoyed Adam McCormick, it was this odd mix of coming-of-age, of horror, of suspense, of almost romance. These kind of disparate elements that for some reason blend really nicely into Jamie Marks is Dead quiet story. And I like that the scope of the film is very intimately focused. It's really fascinating and I didn't quite get the script at first, and I liked that, it made me want to keep thinking about it.

I enjoy the quiet life.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.

If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.

If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does.

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

I find confidence seductive. Confidence, to me, is being happy in your own identity and not being influenced by others. I find that quite seductive because I'm a 50-50 person: in some ways I'm confident, and in some ways I'm quiet, reclusive. [I] like someone who can shake me out of that and approach me.

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

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.

I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary to bring you in - a sense of economy, a sense of scale, which just seemed to understand the medium so well. When you see that in a younger actor, I always think it speaks to incredible knowledge. I can't exactly figure out where that comes from, that confidence to know how to be quiet.

If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.

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.

If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.

If you can't keep quiet, shut up!

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 just want to live in peace and quiet.

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 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 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 draw late at night when the house is quiet.

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

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

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