Quieter Quotes

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius

Find, Soul, Nowhere

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Dag Hammarskjold

May, Grow, Simpler

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
Brian Eno

Music, Long, Voice

Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.
Jane Pauley

Keep, Growing, Longer

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
Kathryn Bigelow

Character, Simple, Constructs

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
Bruce Jackson

Silence, Friends, Die

Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth.
Anna Torv

Truth, Woman, Why

There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's head.
Stephenie Meyer

Book, Different, Moon

They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.
Judy Holliday

Learned, Tough, Until

It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
Laura Marling

Important, Hard, Move

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.
Leland Stanford

Society, Learn, Themselves

I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do with the fact that writing takes up a lot of space in your head. My ideal is to go back to when I was a child. My life is quieter than it used to be. More and more I don't really want to talk to people. I'd make a good nun, actually.
Kate Atkinson

Life, Age, Time

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
Garth Ennis

Work, Joy, Soldier

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
Bill Bruford

Music, Play, Likely

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.
Lucy Liu

Different, Working, Fighting

I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise.
Kelly Ripa

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.
Marvin Hamlisch

Funny, Work, Down

It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.
Julian Barnes

Wanted, Tell, Artist

'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.
Lizzy Caplan

Men, Two, Lives

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
Vanessa Mae

Down, Winter, Summer

I love living in L.A. It's quieter. It's much more relaxing. I'm living in a house for the first time ever. I have a backyard for the first time ever; a dog for the first time ever. So it's a lot of firsts, and I love it so much. It's just so different. It's a nice change of pace.
Sarah Hyland

Love, Change, Time

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.
Tom A. Watson

Life, Before, Fate

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