All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

I'm a fairly quiet and private person. So I haven't sought publicity.

Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.

The little things are most worthwhile- a quiet word, a look, a smile.

I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

I always say, 'When things are quiet, you know something is going on.'

If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does.

I speak on things I'd like to speak on. Anything else, I'll keep quiet.

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life.

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

My neighbors are quiet. I am not. I don't know if they're dead or alive.

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Sometimes it was so quiet, its frightening. It really prioritizes things.

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

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