#quiet

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. ↗

— Albert Camus

#chord #ears #escape #eternally #even

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. ↗

— Truman Capote

#malice #quietness #reply #tone

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#brief period #confusing #confusion #darker #did

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#feel #get #i #i feel #just

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#both #country #different #different styles #electric

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#ago #allows #back #being #being quiet

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#hour #i #i do #like #peace

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. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#corner #crawl #dogs #into #lick

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues. ↗

— Helen Clark

#human #human rights #interest #international #issues

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself. ↗