#quiet

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#imagination #led #mob #nose #quietly

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. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#amongst #ashamed #breathing #cows #creatures

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#becoming #comedian #i #me #new

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#did #get #home #house #i

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. ↗

— Charles W. Eliot

#books #constant #counsellors #friends #most

I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#call #cram #fit #hospital #i

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. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#hermit #i #i do #impression #know

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. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#anyone #become #enter #everyone #his

It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#became #crowd #down #else #everybody

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#down #i #ok #outrageous #own