Quotes of: Quiet Keyword

Hey, it’s Col. I’m standing in a soybean field outside of Gutshot, Tennessee, which is a long story, and it’s hot. K. I’m standing here sweating like I had hyperhidrosis, that disease where you sweat a lot. Crap. That’s not interesting. But...

An Abundance of Katherines

The deeper I went into the valley, the greater the rewards. First, it was a clump of birches, the bottoms wrapped in thick fog, the uppermost branches clear now, nesting birds waking with bright-eyed songs. Next, I passed under the pines, browned nee...

Six Years of A Floating Life: A Memoir

The Dude: Mr. Treehorn treats objects like women, man. Malibu Police Chief: Mr. Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town. You don't draw shit, Lebowski. Now we got a nice, quiet little beach community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet. So l...

The Big Lebowski

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

A Circle of Quiet

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

A Circle of Quiet

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

The Casual Vacancy

The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.

Doctor Sleep

Don’t make light of werewolves, Jessica,' Luke said in a quiet voice. 'They’re very serious business.

A Date with a Werewolf

Bring Down The Walls I will bring down the walls that surround me today. I will no longer be kept quiet Meek enough to drown today....

Enigmatic Evolution

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

Eleanor & Park

When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.

The Forty Rules of Love

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

The Flies

The subject of kissing seemed to be an awkward one. Better keep quiet about it in future. What was obviously important, was to kiss; not talk about it.

Gang Loyalty

Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.

Grave Peril

People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long

Between the Spark and the Burn

On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?

The Bone Clocks

The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been a strangled gasp. Above all, it was quiet, and it seemed to have no source. It whispered.

Boneshaker

BE QUIET!!...What do you want...? I was in the middle of saying something nice...

Bleach, Vol. 1: Strawberry and the Soul Reapers

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Blood Wedding and Yerma

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.

Samuel R. Delany