#quietly

Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#honest #i #laugh #more #myself

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#danger #exposes #himself #more #person

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew. ↗

— Ruth Park

#come #did #event #hot #like

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

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

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#another #beads #byron #child #feel

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ↗

— Dion Boucicault

#killing #kills #men #quietly #talk

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. ↗

— Alice Walker

#die #make #men #pacifist #peaceful

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower. ↗

— Earl Warren

#before #bells #completion #distinguished #joyous

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#darling #i #just #magazines #media