But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

It is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful. No, your beauty should come from within you – the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. This beauty will...

Libby wasn’t a big talker – Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face....

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn’t it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

Quiet is here and all in me. (“Dress of White Silk”)

She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was...

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

Find peace in the quiet moments.

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

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.

Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

This guy’s got a mustache that’s made for TV. I’ve got a mustache that’s made for radio. I keep it zipped up quiet in my pants, next to my cigar.

have a mind so quiet, that you can hear doves whispering as they rest their wings in the rafters your silent sanctuary

Take time to see the quiet miracles thatseek no attention

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it’s gone, we notice.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

You worry me, Mags, so self-contained and quiet. Hazelton would not have been my choice for you.””Why not?””He’s a man who dwells in the shadows and appears to like it there. You have enough shadows...

I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things...

How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labour, of sound sleep,...

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

Everybody’s got a ‘thing.’ Some ‘things’ are nice and quiet. Some ‘things’ have fangs and claws. Some ‘things’ stink and have slobber everywhere.

The world is quiet here.

With her mouth closed, her mind screamed.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Here’s to those who love the quiet, but thrive in chaos.

But how?” my students ask. “How do you actually do it?” You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious...

How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

If you can be quiet, you’re more than welcome to stay in my House of Silence. Bring your own bubblegum ice cream.

I think wrestling is the one that presents theater for people who want to see some theater but don’t necessarily have to dress up or be quiet while they’re watching.

Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times...

my lovefor youwill always belike a mountain stream.quiet. persistent. continuous.

Quiet moments bring you closer to God. It’s your silent time within your own private sanctuary. People have so many things to talk about, worry about, think about, without giving themselves peace within. Quiet moments...

I don’t know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

No. Have it here where it is quiet.” “You and your quiet”, said Brett. “What is it men feel about quiet?” “We like it,” said the count. Like you like your noise, my dear.

Don’t assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to...

Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.

We’re distant cousins. He’s my first cousin, but he’s 5,000 miles away. And he doesn’t talk much.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, “The world is quiet here,” as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Now we will count to twelveand we will all keep still.For once on the face of the earthlet’s not speak in any language,let’s stop for one second,and not move our arms so much.It would be...