I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
Anne Stevenson

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.
Josh Hartnett

I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.
Brian Welch

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.
Keith Urban

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
Carly Simon

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.
Evan Dando

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
Bill Watterson

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.
Sarah McLachlan

I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.
Crystal Waters

I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.
Honor Blackman

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.
Martina Navratilova

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
Freya Stark

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
John Bunyan

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
Johnny Rotten

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

In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.
David Amram

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
Geoffrey Fisher

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.
Brenda Blethyn

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.
Rosie Perez