Quiet Quotes - Page 5

• I was just really appalled, and I really kept quiet until I saw the governor [Rick Perry] get on and repeat the same words that the prosecution had used in the penalty phase: that he [Todd Willingham] was a monster. And that got me to get on to the computer and connect with some of the media and say: "I have his letters. He wasn't a monster. He was a caring individual." Let them see another side.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Caring, Media, Monsters

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• You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.

  Bryce Wilson

  Men, Doe, Knows

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Way, Praying, Stills

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Quiet People, Thinking, Rude

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.

  Alex Haley

  Giving, Sick, Matter

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, Rocks, Storm

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm looking forward to some peace and quiet. I fantasize about having a home, which I've kind of never had.

  Lykke Li

  Home, Looking Forward, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like to go in the corner, in the quiet, 'cause I got to hear my thoughts. If I hear the beat for, like, five seconds, I basically got the tempo, and I don't need to hear it no more. I just focus and write.

  Dreezy

  Writing, Focus, Causes

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• In the open air you don't play as many quiet songs as you would normally.

  Ira Kaplan

  Song, Air, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.

  Sune Rose Wagner

  Decision, Albums, Conscious

  "The Raveonettes". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2008.

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• I don't know, it's dorky. Just like quotes and stuff. Something I want to see everyday or something I want to be there. I don't know. I can put a hole in the wall if I want. It's mine. It's very simple. It's a very tiny house, but I can do whatever I want to. I can rip up the terrible vinyl floor and recycle it. Just create a good space. A quiet place to be.

  Justin Vernon

  Wall, Rip, Simple

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I get stuck, I take a long walk outside or go to a movie. I get out of my own way so I can hear the quiet voices that hold all of the answers that connect the dots.

  Rolonda Watts

  Quiet Voice, Long Walks, Answers

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• So you have Sleep Stage One, Two, and then Three/Four. One is a little bit lighter stage of the quiet, non-REM sleep and then Three/Four is really deep, deep sleep. And what you want is, you actually want a number of - you want to go through all of these stages throughout the night.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, Numbers

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• So when you're in REM sleep, your brain is very active, our body is quiet, but your brain is really processing a lot of things, a lot of emotions; we dream the most in REM sleep. And then you go back down in the deep stages, and so on and so forth.

  Shelby Harris

  Dream, Sleep, Brain

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When you're in the more deeper stages of sleep - REM sleep, your body is quiet, but your mind is actually very active. So it's a time when your body and your brain is restoring itself. It's repairing any cell damage that happened during the day, it's really repairing, like I said, repairing your body, but also helps with digestion, helps with memory.

  Shelby Harris

  Memories, Sleep, Cells

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil and quiet, I'm going to bang on the door."

  Jeff Sharlet

  Doors, Bangs, Yeah

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.

  Tod Machover

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

  Tod Machover

  Squares, Oasis, Boston

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I was looking for, and continue to, is a way to have this exist within a regular, normal, modern life.

  Dani Shapiro

  Modern Life, Down And, Way

  "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

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• In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.

  Rand Paul

  Reality, Self, Middle East

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

  Gordon Hempton

  Nature

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• Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountain to ocean, and legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death.

  Robert Toombs

  Suicide, War, Ocean

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• Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us.

  Alex Tan

  Journey, Gold, May

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• I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

  James Ellroy

  Cities, Careers, Kansas City

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• I feel alive in quiet moments with my son, riding our bikes or watching him line his trains up in a particular order, witnessing how his mind works, hearing him learn a new word. I'm alive in these special moments because I never knew a love like this.

  Alicia Keys

  Son, Quiet Moments, Order

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