Quiet Quotes - Page 15

• We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Teammate, Silent

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• Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

  Laurence Sterne

  Marriage, Numbers, Alarms

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• The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Silence, Knows

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4823, Delphi Classics

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• Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  People, Shy, Stage

  "10 Questions: J. Michael Straczynski". Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. November 7, 2001.

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• I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

  Taylor Swift

  Morning, Failing, Get Up

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• My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

  Taylor Swift

  Order, Law, Csi

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• My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

  Ice T

  Brother, Father, Blue

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• I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Drama, Thinking, People

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• It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

  Helen Thomas

  Peace, War, Voice

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• The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Oracles, Literature, Calm

  Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.133

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• Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.

  Mike Tyson

  Real, Book, Arthur

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• We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

  Voltaire

  Deceived Us, Silent, Deceiving

  "'Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations' ('Essay on the Manners of Nations')". Book by Voltaire. Chapter CLXIII, 1756.

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• I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

  Christopher Walken

  Beautiful, Country

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• I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.

  Crystal Waters

  Integrity, Who I Am, Talking

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• I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

  Emily Watson

  Character, Thinking, Dragons

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• I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

  Bill Watterson

  Doubt, Listening, Nagging

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• I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Fire, Comedy, Calm

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• I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

  Robbie Williams

  Kids, Role Models, Roles

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• The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

  Naomi Wolf

  Usual, Firsts, First Amendment

  "The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2011.

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• I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

  Stevie Wonder

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  "Stevie Wonder – Musician and Statesman". www.reallifestories.org.

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• I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.

  Tiger Woods

  Mean, Fishing, Games

  "Outtakes with Tiger Woods". Interview with Dan Patrick, www.espn.com. May 08, 2002.

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• But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Birthday, Time

  'To a Young Lady' (1802)

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• I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Thinking, Civilization

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• Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Parent, Adults, Television

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Progress, Development, Opinion

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