When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.
I am aware that I've generally been more attracted to introspective roles, but it's sort of bizarre, because it's the opposite of who I am in many ways. I think I'm quite an extroverted, loud person. So it interests me that that's sort of the place that I go all quiet, is when I'm onscreen. It's a bit strange.
There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!
Are you in a library or what?! (on the crowd being quiet)
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
Hitler spoke in a quiet, soft voice.
You're in orbit over the Earth. And suddenly it's very, very quiet. It's dramatic. You realize you're floating in the straps in your chair. And you take off your seat belt and float over to the window and look out, and you realize, "I'm not looking at a picture, here. " I couldn't process it all. Even if I forget everything else in my life, that will stay with me, burned into my brain until the day I die.
If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.
I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.
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.
So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.
I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate.
It's the quiet, humble guy that's not saying anything. That's the really dangerous one.
I was brought up to question things, but I was always a really quiet and shy child.
I'm a people person when I'm out, but I'm a homebody. I like my time and peace and quiet.
If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.
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 am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.
The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.