#quiet

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. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#evening #expectation #go #houses #know

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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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. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

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I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

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. ↗

— Crystal Waters

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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one. ↗

— Andy Grove

#give me #i #me #opposed #quiet

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say. ↗

— Peter Welch

#best #best way #brother #father #found

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

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For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#because #been #certain #certain extent #changing

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

— James Herriot

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