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“Our day-to-day lives are pretty chaotic. So in terms of the writing part, you have to get pretty disciplined about finding quiet moments and making sure you're making time for the art side, on top of all the time-consuming business side.”

Writing Art Moments Sides Term Quiet Findings Day To Day Consuming Chaotic Making Time Day Life Day To Day Life Time Consuming Quiet Moments

Author:Sarah Kay

“It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.”

Heart Doe Passion Design Building Quiet Architecture Architect Quests Consuming

Book:The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style

Source: The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style

“The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.”

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.”

Feelings Pain Form Religion Literature Humility Quiet Hatred Anger Smile Consuming Sweetest Serene Childlike

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.”

Looks Problem Eye Certain Silence Quiet His Eyes Consuming Drawers Corridors Whistling Bogs

Book:Gil's All Fright Diner

Source: Gil's All Fright Diner

“Too much quiet left me depressed and consuming condiments for meals.”

Left Too Much Quiet Meals Consuming Condiments

Author:Tammara Webber