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In the whispers of observation, still thoughts dance; Innovation isn't always loud--sometimes it pricks the fabric of silence, weaving change in moments unseen.
Author:
Ada Chamberlin
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In stillness, true strength unfolds--the practiced art of perseverance whispers louder than the spokesmen of the loud and crumbling.
Author:
Jane Thorne
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So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.
Author:
James Woods
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I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.
Author:
Marie Windsor
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In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.
Author:
Dar Williams
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Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
Author:
Jack Whittaker
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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Author:
Alan Watts
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I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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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.
Author:
Crystal Waters
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
Author:
Edmund Waller
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I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Author:
Queen Victoria
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Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.
Author:
Hunter Tylo
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I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.
Author:
Julia Tyler
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Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
Author:
John Turturro
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I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.
Author:
Lee Trevino
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I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
Author:
Guillermo Toro
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I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.
Author:
Mel Torme
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I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.
Author:
Kiana Tom
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Author:
Susan Taylor
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It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.
Author:
James Taylor
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
Author:
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
Author:
Gustav Stickley
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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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.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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In quiet places, reason abounds.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.
Author:
John Starks
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God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
Author:
Charles Stanley
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Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
Author:
Layne Staley
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I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
Author:
Rick Springfield
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It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
Author:
Tony Snow
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Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.
Author:
Michael Smith
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
Author:
Iain Smith
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Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
Author:
George Smith
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I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
Author:
Christian Slater
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At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
Author:
May Sinclair
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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Author:
Paul Simon
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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.
Author:
Carly Simon
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My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
Author:
Beverly Sills
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My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.
Author:
Duncan Sheik
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Author:
George Shaw
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It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
Author:
Robert Service
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
Author:
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more.
Author:
Richard Scott
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It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.
Author:
Eva Saint
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Author:
Arundhati Roy
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If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
Author:
Johnny Rotten
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Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
Author:
Dennis Rodman
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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.
Author:
Jamie Redknapp
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For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
Author:
John Ransom
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Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
Author:
Thomas Quincey
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Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
Author:
William Powell
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.
Author:
Liz Phair
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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.
Author:
Rosie Perez
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
Author:
Daniel Palmer
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
Author:
P. O'Rourke
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I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.
Author:
Alex O'Loughlin
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It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
Author:
Georgia O'Keeffe
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I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.
Author:
Krist Novoselic
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I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Author:
Harry Nilsson
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
Author:
Olivia Newton-John
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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.
Author:
Martina Navratilova
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Author:
Iris Murdoch
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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.
Author:
Dominic Monaghan
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Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.
Author:
Jayne Meadows
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I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.
Author:
Sarah McLachlan
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Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!
Author:
Michael McKean
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Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
Author:
James McHenry
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I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
Author:
Bobby McFerrin
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All quiet along the Potomac.
Author:
George McClellan
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So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
Author:
Kathy Mattea
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Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Author:
Judith Martin
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
Author:
Ralph Marston
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
Author:
Barry Manilow
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In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
Author:
Stephane Mallarme
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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
Author:
John Major
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I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
Author:
Ali MacGraw
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I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Author:
Robert Lynd
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Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.
Author:
LaToya London
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Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
Author:
Charles Lint
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There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.
Author:
John Lindsay
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Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
Author:
Anne Lindbergh
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
Author:
Daniel Lewis
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
Author:
Daniel Lewis
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I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
Author:
Nigella Lawson
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My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.
Author:
Lillie Langtry
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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Author:
Ann Landers
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With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
Author:
Lee Krasner
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Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
Author:
Andre Kostelanetz
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I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.
Author:
Greg Kinnear
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Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.
Author:
Jonathan King
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The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
Author:
Ben King
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Author:
Helen Keller
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You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.
Author:
Paul Kagame
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Author:
James Joyce
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It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
Author:
Chief Joseph
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I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
Author:
Davy Jones
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
Author:
Billy Joel
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Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Author:
Karl Jaspers
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The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Author:
Molly Ivins
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People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.
Author:
Bruce Hornsby
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I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
Author:
Bell Hooks
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Author:
Napoleon Hill
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People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
Author:
Dana Hill
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
Author:
Patricia Highsmith
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It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
Author:
Herman Hesse
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They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.
Author:
James Herriot
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Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.
Author:
Josh Hartnett
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Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.
Author:
John Hart
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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.
Author:
Tom Hanks
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.
Author:
Jessica Hahn
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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
Author:
Andy Grove
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The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.
Author:
Lindsey Graham
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
Author:
Andy Goldsworthy
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I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.
Author:
Jerry Goldsmith
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You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
Author:
Arthur Golden
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They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.
Author:
Terry Gilliam
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It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
Author:
Philip Gibbs
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The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season.
Author:
Gil Gerard
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Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
Author:
John Gardner
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Author:
Anne Frank
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In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
Author:
Geoffrey Fisher
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But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
Author:
Bryan Ferry
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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Author:
Euripides
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The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
Author:
Marian Edelman
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I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.
Author:
Clea Duvall
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Author:
Peter Drucker
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In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.
Author:
Minnie Driver
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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.
Author:
William Douglas
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
Author:
John Donne
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We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.
Author:
Everett Dirksen
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Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.
Author:
Bruce Dickinson
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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Author:
Charles Dickens
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Author:
Don DeLillo
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My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.
Author:
Patti Davis
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
Author:
Mac Davis
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Author:
Robertson Davies
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I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.
Author:
Ron Darling
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I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.
Author:
Evan Dando
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But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.
Author:
Cindy Crawford
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The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Author:
Bill Cosby
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Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Author:
Bill Cosby
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Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
Author:
Barry Cornwall
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In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
Author:
Dane Cook
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Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things.
Author:
Toni Collette
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Author:
Edward Coke
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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Author:
Agatha Christie
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
Author:
Agatha Christie
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What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.
Author:
Ron Chernow
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
Author:
Malcolm Chazal
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Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.
Author:
Richard Chamberlain
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I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.
Author:
Donald Cargill
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I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
Author:
Donald Cargill
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Author:
Albert Camus
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Author:
Michael Caine
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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
Author:
Lord Byron
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
Author:
George Byron
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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A quiet mind cureth all.
Author:
Robert Burton
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
Author:
John Bunyan
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A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.
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Bill Budge
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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Mel Brooks
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Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
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Bill Bradley
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I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.
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Norman Borlaug
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Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
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Lisa Bonet
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
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Anne Boleyn
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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.
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Franz Boas
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In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.
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Brenda Blethyn
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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.
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Honor Blackman
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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Candice Bergen
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
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Hilaire Belloc
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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Amelia Barr
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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Natalie Barney
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It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
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Robert Ballard
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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Walter Bagehot
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It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.
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Bugs Baer
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
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Saint Augustine
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Rowan Atkinson
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I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.
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Gillian Anderson
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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
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Anaxagoras
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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.
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David Amram
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
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Margery Allingham
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Joseph Addison
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Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
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F. Abraham
