What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I think this is what successful drug dealers are like. They don't drive around in flashy cars, they don't show off, they behave very quietly, they get on with their job and they earn lots of money. And it goes up and up and up and up the scale. Secondly - and selfishly - I like the moral aspect of the movie, which is that violence has consequences, and you feel emotionally involved with the violence.
Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
I can't do anything quietly anymore.
No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn't make it any less loud. You can't whisper hate.
One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new mind is operating that is not connected with the conditioned past and yet perceives and understands the whole mechanism of conditioning. It is the unmasking of the self that is nothing but masks - images, memories of past experiences, fears, hopes, and the ceaseless demand to be something or become somebody.
I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.
I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.
I'm surprised you know that," I say quietly, " since you left halfway through my one and only fight. " "It wasn't something I wanted to watch. " he says. What's that supposed to mean?
Boast quietly, with decorum.
So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation. " His mouth curls into a smile.
I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.
If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.
In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.
Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?
My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.
The big catalyst was seeing my sister, when I was 11, doing a dramatic recital. When I saw her on the stage and everyone listening to her so patiently, quietly, that's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way.
The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.