Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.
The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.
If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.
Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn
The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone. ' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.
I'm kind of quiet but when I put my helmet on, it's like you flip a switch. I'm ready to go.
It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that. . . spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.
I'd rather just stay quiet and play the game. Winning is hard enough as it is.
Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.
Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
"Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see. "
As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.
There's just no quiet in Vegas.
No loose fish enters our quiet bay.
