#quiet

I just want to live in peace and quiet. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#just #live #peace #peace and quiet #quiet

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years. ↗

— Carly Simon

#artistry #been #different #few #gone

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet. ↗

— Tony Snow

#keep #makes #pack #people #quiet

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#bill #bright #co-operation #conditions #enterprise

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#always #beyond #butterfly #down #grasp

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#i #know #means #myself #quiet

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#folk #i #intimacy #make #music

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#contemporary #half #how #length #novel

Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea. ↗

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

#tea #women #change

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#beer #confession #courage #drinking #quietness