Quiet Quotes - Page 12

• I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's an essential ingredient to making, to art. Certainly on a practical level it is. But on the other hand, I think it's a myth that the creative inspiration is locked up inside the person and just needs a quiet space and the right "serious" brooding moment to get released.

  Rachel Kushner

  Art, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to continue is because there is often an unwritten rule in many families of abuse: Don't ask. Don't tell. Keeping quiet does no good. I found that sharing my story liberated me from my past. There is power in storytelling and, in that, healing. Owning my truth also empowered me. I will no longer be manipulated or controlled by guilt or shame.

  Kambri Crews

  Growing Up, Dirty, Healing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• All of life is to be lived in the presence and power of God, not just for a few minutes or even an hour in the morning. It's as though we want to take a tiny nibble of spiritual food and hope that sustains us for a while; then we wonder why we're so weary and unable to live as Christ calls us to live. To truly enjoy the abundant life Jesus invited us into, we need to be more aware of God all the time, just as he was. We need that regular, focused quiet time, but we also need to take our awareness of and commitment to God into our more numerous "noisy times".

  Kenneth Boa

  Spiritual, Jesus, Morning

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I'm able to behave like the guy you see onstage although that's not my entire existence. I might be a portion of that guy. At home, quiet prevails. It's incense, candles and birds chirping. Everything's done to maximize peace and tranquility, because we know when we exit those doors, it's going to be a whole different energy.

  Katt Williams

  Home, Guy, Bird

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• When you do a cover it's a way to get attention clicking on something. At the Quiet Music Festival, The Jicks did this Nirvana song, very unrehearsed and not important, but then all the websites were like, "They covered Nirvana!" People like covers of famous people.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, People, Important

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• After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

  Cate Blanchett

  Running, Night, Appreciate

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• In the late 90s, there was a reverse. Everyone would stand stock still and be so attentive and quiet. But then, it was almost like, "C'mon people! Engage - make a show with us!" You can hear these different eras pass through in the recordings.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Different

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• Most Turkish Kurds want a quiet life and improved economic conditions. But the Kurdish regions of Turkey are mountainous; they're ill-favored climatically; they're poor; and there's a limit to what the government can do there without wasting a lot of resources. Developing the south east may mean decamping a large part of its population. But the thing that will improve the lot of the Kurds more than anything else will be the stabilization of Iraq in the first place, because then the Turkish southeast stops being a dead end. It can become a bridge, with trade flowing in both directions.

  Andrew Mango

  Mean, Economic, Poor

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• It's never really quiet in the Wu-Tang tour bus unless it's a certain time of day. Sometimes it's quiet, but you're not going to have eight, nine members on a bus in total silence and everyone is up, unless there are some issues going on, unless there's a death or something really serious that just has us all thinking. Other than that, we're gonna be kicking it.

  GZA

  Thinking, Silence, Serious

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• I have to say, our kind of music was always a struggle live. Quiet vocals and really loud drums and guitars, it was quite tricky. It still can be. I'm slightly amazed that other bands say that, because I'm still like, "Oh God, what am I doing?"

  Miki Berenyi

  Struggle, Kind, Tricky

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• Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

  Marina Abramovic

  Girl, Ordinary, Littles

  Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

  Henry Adams

  America, Water, Society

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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• It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

  Robert Ballard

  Love, Peace, Sea

  Robert D. Ballard, Michael Sweeney (2004). “Return to Titanic: a new look at the world's most famous lost ship”, Natl Geographic Society

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• There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

  Amelia Barr

  Sorrow, Far Away, Corners

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1916). “Jan Vedder's Wife”

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• Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

  Lynda Barry

  Names, Awful, Heard

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• From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Verses (1910) "Dedicatory Ode"

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• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  Candice Bergen

  Book, Thinking, Quiet Moments

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• I'm a pretty quiet person.

  Mayim Bialik

  Quiet Person, Persons

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• I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Watches, Band, Clubs

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• Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

  Franz Boas

  Opportunity, Looks, Path

  Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.69, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Happy, Joy

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.87

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• There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Talking, Literature

  The House in Paris pt. 1, ch. 2 (1935)

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• At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.

  David R. Brower

  Energy, Littles, Waste

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• To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Dream, Thinking

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• Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

  John Buchan

  Civilization, Modern Life, Life Is

  John Buchan (2011). “The Power-House”, p.28, House of Stratus

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