Top 158 Quieter Quotes & Sayings

I used to be a bit quieter and I think living in America has made me a little more open about talking to other people.

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

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

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.

Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.

People say it's a quiet flow, that it sounds like I'm in a library. That could have come from when I was living in my old place, a nice loft. I was the youngest person in the building, and I would be working alone on my music. I would get emails two or three times a month about 'loud' music, so I became quieter and quieter about making beats.

When I was making 'Xen,' I was surprised at how introverted some of the songs were. I wasn't deliberately trying to go quieter, but I had to embrace it.

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

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

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

My mouth was always my weapon. I've become quieter now. It's possible to put things very clearly, concisely and sharply, even when you do it quietly.

I moved back home to Southend in 2015 for a quieter life.

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with guns and blowing things up.

The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter.

The quieter you can make your mind, the more you've invoked your will.

There was a different ending to New Moon originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bellas head.

I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.

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

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

'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.

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

I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini energy begins to radiate and rise, it causes the mind to be quiet.

I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something.

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

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

I'm just going to go to schools and give inspirational speeches about our bodies. I'll just wear flowing dresses and talk way quieter than I can.

Clothing should be quieter than the woman so that her true beauty can shine through.

I've always been obsessed with contrast in records, and using harsher elements to make the quieter ones more powerful.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die

The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.

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.

Nintendo is applying the benefits of advanced technology, but we're using it to make our machines more power-efficient, quieter, and faster to start.

I think, in a lot of ways, it's easier to play a smaller room. You can exploit the quieter dynamics you would shy away from in larger venues.

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.

I like the idea of sort of playing quieter roles, which would be refreshing for a minute. It is exhausting being really loud and obnoxious.

The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have passed, .. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience.

When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it’s painful, and it certainly doesn’t feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride.

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.

The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

I'm looking forward to becoming older and quieter.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.

Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.

I think it's hard for quieter, more introverted people to get into acting.

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

As far as past men go, I loved Jeff Hardy. He reminds me of my husband in a way. He's quieter but has a presence in the ring that's, like, wow.

Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.

It's funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it's so much quieter than they think.

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.

Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

I've been singing quieter because I live in a thin-walled apartment.

Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.

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

If you have removed those people and situations that make your life more drama-like, then you're definitely a success. After all, who doesn't enjoy a quieter home and workplace?