Noiselessly Quotes

#1. The perfection of her success, decidedly, was like some strange shore to which she had been noiselessly ferried and where, with a start, she found herself quaking at the thought that the boat might have put off again and left her. The

Henry James

#2. Even there, intimacy evolved its alchemy. A solemn marble stairway led to corridors covered with red carpets, upon which one moved noiselessly.

Jean Genet

#3. To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#4. The music passed in an instant, as the first bars of sudden music always did, over the fantastic fabrics of his mind, dissolving them painlessly and noiselessly as a sudden wave dissolves the sandbuilt turrets of children.

James Joyce

#5. Look up at the miracle of the falling snow, - the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.

John Burroughs

#6. A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.

Raymond Chandler

#7. By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

Roger Zelazny

#9. Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.

William Wetmore Story

#10. To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

Terry Tempest Williams

#11. [On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.

Joy Adamson

#12. Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

Liu Cixin

#13. Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

James A. Garfield

#14. Seated at table -
no need for the fracture
of the room's silence; noiselessly
they conversed.

R.S. Thomas

#15. We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#16. I wander all night in my vision,
Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers ...

Walt Whitman

#17. There was a silence. The evening darkened in the room. Noiselessly and with silver feet the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours faded wearily out of things.

Oscar Wilde

#18. The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

Jeffrey Kluger

#19. Providences in themselves are not a perfect guide. They often puzzle and entangle our thoughts; but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested.

John Flavel

#20. When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.

Sandra Cisneros

#21. My Dad was sad that he saw us working so hard on something that was destined to fail.

Kristin Kimball

#22. I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.

Michiel Huisman

#23. It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.

Jim Hightower

#24. There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.

Stephen Malkmus

#25. Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

Michael Bloomberg

#26. Kick the crutch out from under your excuses

Lorii Myers

#27. And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction
so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#28. An ideal Mentor is trustworthy (i.e. capable of keeping things confidential), optimistic, dependable and available, a seasoned leader or contributor within the company, influential, a good listener and has excellent interpersonal skills.

Leslie Gordan

#29. You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion.

Jerry A. Coyne

#30. Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.

D. Patrick Miller

#31. A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.

Loren Weisman