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...

I’ve had a quiet fascination with New Zealand for most of my life.

Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.

I’d like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

On TV, I can hit the mute button and silence any moron. I wish real life came with a hush button I could push and enjoy instant quiet.

[John] watched the flames for a while. “I would have to say that I find God in serving His children. ‘When I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me...

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

A Manifesto for Introverts1. There’s a word for ‘people who are in their heads too much’: thinkers.2. Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.3. The next generation of quiet kids can and must be raised to...

There’s an old adage,” he said, “translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages — “Life is life and fun is fun, but it’s all so quiet when the goldfish...

I find it easier to work when it’s quiet.

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It’s just about being quiet, like drawing back the day,...

If she’d just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no…

The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming…Dead silence.Literally dead.

Silence is a lie that screams at the light.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.