I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.

If you're pretty, you want to be ugly. If you're loud, you want to play quiet. You always want to challenge people's expectations.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.

It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.

I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough.

People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

My house in Connecticut is very quiet, and when I'm trying to concentrate, I don't even allow the cat inside my second-floor study.

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

I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.

I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

I love the intimate, single spotlight, troubadour-y quiet, delicate moments. But I also love Springsteen and screaming and shouting.

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.

My tendency is to be quiet and to stay focused and in character. Not the entire time, but certainly to stay focused while I'm on set.

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

I'm so boring and grounded, and I like quiet, and I like structure, and I like goals. I couldn't be more opposite from Jack McFarland.

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

When you have a house full of children, there's never a quiet moment, so I like getting out in the garden for a bit of time to myself.

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

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 have a lot of alone time.

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.

Too fat, too thin, too loud, too quiet - I was never going to fit the standards others created for me. Instead of complying, I protested.

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

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