“At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.” PastPerfectHistoryGoneCenturyQuietDown AndBottomDumb Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.” KnowsWellsMotherSpeakSoundVoiceHoursMy OwnTalkingQuietSingingDown AndInterviewsAbout YourselfAccusedBeing In LoveForumsRoad Trip Author:Ben Affleck
“On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to stand up and speak out. Yet on controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion, where Christians are likely to be criticized for our involvement, we are content to sit down and stay quiet.” ActionChristianSpeakSocialPovertyIssuesQuietDown AndSlaveryAbortionHomosexualityInvolvementControversialSpeaks OutSocial ActionControversial Issues Book:Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age Source: Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age
“When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions.” LooksLongDifferentPlayActorsEmotionPiecesProduceQuietPicksDown AndSensitiveDramaticSymphonyUps & DownsDifferent Emotions Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the world at certain times or for certain periods of time. But we don't really have that in our culture, so it's difficult for many Westerners to learn how to sit down or lie down and just be quiet without going to sleep. We're just not trained to do it.” WorldLyingCertainValuesCultureDifficultSleepPeriodsQuietDown AndContemplatingEasternGoing To SleepOther CulturesWesternersGreat ValueWithdrawing Author:Shakti Gawain
“Many times people can access that being stage more fully and more easily if at first you are actually doing something. If you run, or dance, or do something kind of vigorous, and let the energy release, then sometimes it's easier to sit or lie down and then feel at ease and rest and be quiet and move inside.” PeopleIfsFeelsFirstsKindSometimesRunningMovingLyingEnergyStageEasierQuietDown AndAccessReleaseEaseVigorousActually Doing Something Author:Shakti Gawain
“I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I was looking for, and continue to, is a way to have this exist within a regular, normal, modern life.” WayModernNeededQuietNormalDown AndSlow DownModern Life Author:Dani Shapiro
“Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.” PeopleIfsWantQuietDown AndSettlingTexasOutrageousSettling Down Author:Janis Joplin
“If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small theaters. You know, to me it's like a church for music. You can sit down and really give yourself to the performance and be comfortable with good surroundings and a clean, quiet atmosphere.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingLittlesBitsChurchBrotherQuietComfortableLittle BitPerformancesTheaterDown AndCleanMarketingAtmosphereMy BrotherSurroundings Author:Terry Bozzio
“In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.” WantYearsFirstsChildrenWalksTeachQuietDown And Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.” I CanChristianityMinutesQuietDown AndEnthusiasm Author:Anne Lamott
“Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.” IfsHumansNamesGrowsSidesIssuesConditionsHavensTomorrowCivilizationQuietDown AndRevolutionaryStreamsAgreementRebelHuman ConditionDeclineDesperationStagnantQuiet Desperation Author:Wallace Stegner
“I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.” PeopleThinkingNeedsStillsToo MuchFocusQuietDown And Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.” PersonsLongLaughingForeverGoes OnQuietDown AndWittyEntertainmentWitFascinating Book:D.V. Source: D.V.