#quiet

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#fellowship #made #more #perfect #quiet

I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#between #daniel #feel #film #fully

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#always #beyond #butterfly #down #grasp

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#dare #extent #great #great extent #happy

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#enough #hall #hear #never #people

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#i #know #means #myself #quiet

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#complains #defects #gentle #imperfect #imperfection

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#contemporary #half #how #length #novel

There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a word. No questions, no asking why, just quietly lay there with you, observing the stars, until you're ready to get back up on your feet again and walk the last bit home, softly holding your hand as a quiet way of saying “I'm here”. It was a beautiful night. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#empty-streets #free #friendship #love #night

Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays. ↗

— Graham Greene

#change