Best quiet & bigs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.”

Humans Moments Bigs Sound Cities Silence Strange Quiet Breaths Fellows Noise Instant Seconds Sunlight Traffic Miraculous Footsteps Big Cities

Author:Dorothy Day

“If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. The drama around even sitting in the car and singing into a tape recorder that's as big as your hand - waiting until it's very quiet, doing your thing, and then playing it back and hoping you like it - is the same basic anatomy as when you're in the recording studio, really. Sometimes it's better that way because some of the pressure is off and you can pretend it's throwaway.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea to fill up time. I just never would do it. Whenever I seemed to have a quiet hole, I would paint. That was what I would choose to do to fill up the time.”

People Bigs Asks Solitude Quiet Mass Paint Holes Tea Just One

Author:Myfanwy Pavelic

“I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big album, ... I'd like to go back to being as sparse as we possibly can.”

Bigs Quiet Albums

Author:Margo Timmins

“I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on 'Big Brother.' You'd see a person who is quiet and reserved and very analytical - a huge observer.”

People Persons Bigs Opportunity Wish Watches Brother Huge Quiet Observers Reserved Watch Me

Author:Ndamukong Suh

“I dont think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess Im quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. Im certainly not the quiet reflective type.”

People Thinking Humans Bigs Human Beings Type Quiet Picks Casts Extremes Loud

Author:Ben Daniels

“[While writing], I'll go anywhere I find that is quiet, has no internet. I have a big internet problem.”

Writing Problem Bigs Internet Quiet

Author:Michael Chabon

“You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big.”

Bigs Strong Emotion Color Cold Quiet Weak Warm Fearful Daring Harsh Select Harmonious

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“What helped me get the part was that I turned it down. When I read the script, Venus was just a black guy who came in wearing a big coat and a hat and making jive talk. I'd been up for so many of those! I'd had enough of caricatures, what white writers conceive blacks to be. I told the producer I wasn't interested in doing anything like that for three or four years. He said that it was just a pilot, that Venus would be given a human dimension and would be quiet off-the-air. I wanted that input. I thought that side was as important as the comic side. For 'WKRP,' too much of either would be bad.”

“I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.”

Knows Kind Bigs Kids Term Creative Fire Nice Type Quiet Mouths Setting Settings Going Out

Author:Iggy Pop

“We are diverse, big time. Sully is the main man, which makes sense as the lead man of the band. Tony and myself are quiet; I need to be begged to do these interviews. But it comes down to being a team, that is the main thing. Knowing, understanding and accepting our roles.”

Men Needs Bigs Understanding Accepting Roles Laughing Knowing Team Quiet Band Make Sense Interviews Diverse

Author:Robbie Merrill

“There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to fulfillment. He tries falling in love, that doesn't work. He goes to war and searches for military glory, that doesn't work. He does the quiet life of a farmer. He's always active. That's what I loved about him, he's always looking, searching. He's really inquisitive.”

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Author:James Norton

“My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.”

Bigs Situation Careers Wife Fans Poet Quiet Intellectual Males My Wife Alpha Male Just Live Alphas

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“Aside from that i’m an introvert and i’m a quiet person. The benefit of that is I listen. It’s not like my mouth is open and I broadcast everything and i’m drowning everyone out. When I’m listening to the incredible artists I work with and i’m hearing their specialised advice on what they would do with something then we can, all together, as a big collaborative group, all work together to achieve something together.”

Persons Bigs Together Artist Groups Advice Listening Quiet Benefits Mouths Incredibles Hearing Introvert Drowning Quiet Person

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.”

People Thinking Years Wells Children Bigs Lasts Three House Left Born My Own Four Childhood Quiet Died Our Children Nostalgia Echoes Happy Family

Author:Guy Maddin

“I'm most inspired by people who are doing what they love in a big, loud way. And big and loud doesn't always have to be big and loud. Sometimes these people can appear as a quiet storm, but in their full expression everyone feels the impact.”

People Way Feels Sometimes Bigs Expression Quiet Impact Inspired Storm Loud

Author:Karla Cheatham Mosley

“I've always had this juxtaposition of characters, because I'm an artist. I'm a very quiet person at home and introspective and the whole deal, and then I can be really big later. I had no problem.”

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Author:Terry Crews

“America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.”

People Ifs Bigs Eye America Literature Sound White Stupid Wind Quiet Fortunate Complacency Hurricanes Protestants Serene

Author:Norman Mailer

“The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.”

Bigs Happens Behinds Doors Drama Quiet Ordinary Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors

Author:Joyce Maynard

“I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.”

Trying Persons Bigs Wanted Talking Integrity Quiet Stronger Who I Am I've Learned Shy Holding On Not Talking

Author:Crystal Waters

“Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be like You; I do not need one big and strong nor yet so very tall, nor need he be some genius, or wealthy, Lord, at all; but let his head be high, dear God, and let his eye be clear, his shoulders straight, whate'er his state, whate'er his earthly sphere; and let his face have character, a ruggedness if soul, and let his whole life show, dear God, a singleness of goal; then when he comes (as he will come) with quiet eyes aglow, I'll understand that he's the man I prayed for long ago.”

Source: Footprints of a Pilgrim

“The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.”

People Has Beens Facts Bigs Universe Quiet Sake Quiet Life

Book:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.”

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Book:Miss Wyoming

Source: Miss Wyoming

“Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.”

Writing Years Humans Bigs Too Much Cold Activity Quiet Late Hot Excuse Noise Too Late Desks Human Activity

Author:Robert Harris

“Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.”

Thinking Kind I Can Ends Feelings Bigs House Special Quiet Bird Concepts Standing Hey Dramatic Good Times Melancholy Vacation Something Special Closure Where She Went Birds Chirping

Author:Gayle Forman

“You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.”

Ifs Knows World Humans Looks Littles Made Said Moments Bigs Wanted Together Father Differences Blood Quiet Tiny Dragons Unusual Big Things Small Things

Book:Dragonlance Chronicles

Source: Dragonlance Chronicles

“I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.”

Source: Life After God

“My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.”

Giving Ideas Reason Stories Bigs Prayer Quiet Resources Newspapers Appeals Swings Suggestions Fence

Author:Graydon Carter

“Have you ever been anyone's?" I ask, a feathery whisper in the quiet bedroom. He lifts his head to mine, and I want him so bad I feel consumed inside, like he's already possessed my soul, and now my soul aches for him to possess my body. A powerful emotion tightens his features as he reaches out to cradle my cheek in his big hand, and there's an unexpected fierceness in his eyes, in his touch, as he cups me. "No. And you?" The calluses in his palm rasp on my skin, and I find myself tucking my cheek deeper into them. "I've never wanted to." "Neither have I." The moment is intimate.”

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