Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

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

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

If you can't keep quiet, shut up!

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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