Quiet Quotes - Page 8

• Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Islands, Oasis, Offering

  "Interview with 'One Thousand Gifts' Author, Ann Voskamp". Interview with Frank Viola, churchleaders.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Silence, Listening, Sound

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• I had a lot of good times. I had a lot of fun. I liked what I was doing, so I just kept doing it. At the Tape Music Center, I was working from midnight to four in the morning. Because then it was quiet, nobody was there, and I could just do my work. I didn't have to fool around.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Morning, Fun, Fool

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• When I was a child, I had a quiet, protected childhood.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Children, Childhood, Protected

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.

  Dan Santat

  Artist, Folks, Studios

  "Helping Students Make Friends". Interview with Brian Smith, www.scholastic.com. August 25, 2014.

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• Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues - both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.

  Ai Weiwei

  Heart, Issues, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

  Gene Wilder

  Canada, Firsts, Mets

  Source: keranews.org

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• I think we should SHUT UP, stop talking about negotiating anything, just be quiet and let things sort themselves out a little bit, and see what happens. Maybe there will be one or two other countries that think what Britain's done, we can do, and it seems the right way to go.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.

  Boy George

  War, Facts, Homosexual

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• If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Rivers, Imagination

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

  Jen Kirkman

  Mean, Deep Thought, Traveled

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What I find really astonishing is how quiet everybody is in my industry. I mean, nobody in the entertainment business except for maybe a handful of people ever speak out about what's going on. Nobody takes a political stance or expresses an opinion.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mean, Speaks Out, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense of political outrage or injury? And in that way, the possibility of sympathetic identification was foreclosed. That does not mean that some people took quiet pleasure in certain icons of US capitalism coming down, even though they would oppose such action on moral and political grounds.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Icons, People

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• A friend will give you immediate feedback and that will be that friend's opinion. An analyst often remains quiet and you hear what you've said and you gain your own insight.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Giving, Gains, Opinion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.

  Alison Bechdel

  Country, New York, Mean

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them. But when very serious evils confronted the American people, they had to go beyond the Congressmen and Senators, and they had to commit civil disobedience and they had even to break the law.

  Howard Zinn

  Nice, Law, People

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's very little interruption.

  Wole Soyinka

  Creativity, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The media has been trying to undermine Donald Trump from the moment he got into the race, and he has triumphed over them at every turn - and they can't stand that, either. And they've realized they alone don't have the power to get rid of Trump. So now it's join forces with the deep state, the sabotage going on with the Obama army that is working in quiet and invisibility within the shadow government, if you will. And even that is not distancing Trump's supporters from him. They know full well what's happening, and they're infuriated by it, and they're furious.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Army, Race, Government

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People have to have the desire within themselves to find out who they are. Who am I and what am I doing here and where am I going? Those sort of basic questions. Even without picking up a book or anything. If they just ask themselves that sincerely, in the quiet of the night, the door will open.

  George Harrison

  Book, Night, Doors

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• The maha-mantra was prescribed for modern times because of the fast-paced nature of things today. Even when people do get into a little quiet place, it's very difficult to calm the mind for very long.

  Mukunda Goswami

  Long, People, Mind

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. 1982.

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• I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor [to East]. He has a home in Silicon Valley, and he said it's just a few minutes' drive away from mine.

  Masayoshi Son

  Home, London, Firsts

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give all you've got and to be rejected for your troubles. But expect magic to happen. It just might. And don't worry about winning the audition, just win the room.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Winning, Giving, Worry

  Source: www.chud.com

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• I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

  Oliver Stone

  Writing, Track, Directors

  "Interview: Oliver & Sean Stone (Alexander Revisited)". Interview With Jeremy Smith, trouble.city. September 19, 2007.

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• When you speak words that are relevant to people, they automatically shut up and you know you are in the presence of some very magical words. It's a gift when someone can listen and be quiet and not interrupt.

  Sandra Cisneros

  People, Speak, Shut Up

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Years, Want

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview with Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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