Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. – Robert Louis Stevenson
I’ve heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don’t quite know what that means. – Sarah McLachlan
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism. – Richard Dawkins
I prefer to live in the country where it’s quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian. – Patricia Highsmith
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. – Robert Louis Stevenson
I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor. – Pawan Kalyan
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know. – Rebecca Makkai
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear. – Robert Staughton Lynd
Yes, I played inside the Taj Mahal, but the experience was also a quiet, inner experience. – Paul Horn
I don’t think there’s an illustrator who’s as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt… but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know? – Quentin Blake
I kind of put myself out there as is. I’m a quiet person. I don’t know if that’s surprising. I’m a Pilates junkie. – Zach Galifianakis
My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s just not December without that movie in my house. – Tom Hanks
Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet – except for a selected few. – Stefan Hell
I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why it’s appealing – I’ve had that little high you get from posting stuff online. But then you think, ‘Did I need to say that?’ I’ve explored that enough to know to stay kind of quiet these days. – Trent Reznor
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet. – William O. Douglas
I’m really grounded and quite hippie, wanting to nurture and have children and be quiet. – Sienna Miller
Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It’s reflecting back on what you’re hearing. It’s processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech. – Shelley Moore Capito
If you looked at the sound pattern of an old-fashioned record, it would be very spikey. But nowadays, there’s no spikes – everything looks like a brick, so the quiet bits become louder. It’s actually damaging because it’s like listening to a drill. – Stephen Morris