Quotes About Quiteness

#1. I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums.

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

Duncan Sheik

#3. The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

Mark V. Hurd

#4. We'll be the walls that shield these terrible events from them. We can endure the pain for however long they need to heal.

Krista Ritchie

#5. The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

Ralph Ellison

#6. But I need solitude
which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

Sandra Bernhard

#8. As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.

Michael Moore

#9. When I travel, I have to have blotting sheets. It's so much better to remove the oil than to cover it up because then your skin just looks cakey.

Bethany Mota

#10. inspired him to bear witness to a world which was bleeding with injustice and intolerance and petty corruption.

David Lagercrantz

#11. I knew that as a pharmacy student I would obtain military deferment. As I was of Jewish origin, this meant that I would not have to serve in a forced labor unit of the Hungarian army.

John Harsanyi

#12. You have taught me that I am allowed to like myself as I am, at whatever stage I am in. I can change, I can stay the same, or I can be whoever it is that is right for me; but I can be satisfied. No, more than that. I can be proud. I can celebrate. That is what I am going to do.

Jessica Park

#13. Someday maybe I'll go back and see what the Deep South is like.

Fred Armisen

#14. I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.

Thomas Friedman

#15. We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

Tom Brown Jr.

#16. I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

Rachael Leigh Cook

#17. Somewhere, someone is search for the pieces of you that mold well with theirs.

Nikki Rowe