#quiet

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#i #i think #i write #quiet #sometimes

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. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#act #anew #case #difficulty #dogmas

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. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#body #different #fighting #much #position

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. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#allow #back #deep #dig #down

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#advertiser #background #business #go #magic

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me. ↗

— Heather Mills

#articles #had #i #me #quiet

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#boy #doing #get #hope #i

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#being #courage #god #him #just

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#arriving #because #begin #bird #dragons

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me. ↗

— Olivia Newton-John

#i #i love #love #me #nobody