#quiet

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #quiet-please #librarians

I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#across #always #appreciate #because #come

The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly ended. The wedding-cake drawbridge lowered itself To the fragile forget-me-not flower. You climbed aboard. Burnt horizons suddenly paved with golden stones, Dreams I had, including suicide, Puff out the hot-air balloon now. It is bursting, it is about to burst ↗

— John Ashbery

#beauty

It is time for dead languages to be quiet. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#languages #quiet #time

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#ends #first #friends #homes #laughter

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#advanced #american #american indians #creating #different

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#america #anybody #audience #because #being

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#being #constantly #cups #filled #how

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#got #lively #living #noisy #quiet

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. ↗

— James Broughton

#joy #poetry #quietest