“if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.” IfsWritingYearsHumansHeartMightHumanityFallForcePerfectConsciousnessFiveQuietYears AgoInsightObservationFive YearsMatureHuman HeartBetter Than YouSentimentality Author:Sarah Orne Jewett
“In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.” ThinkingShouldMindIdeasEvilRoomsFiveBecomingQuietEatingFunctionDrinkingVariousSettingSettingsDesirableEating And DrinkingQuiet Room Author:Dogen
“I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.” PeopleBookDoneEnoughHomeYoungPartyFiveFourQuietFellasQuiet Life Author:Cillian Murphy
“If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.” IfsWritingYearsForcePerfectFiveQuietYears AgoFive YearsMatureBetter Than You Book:Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 Source: Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912
“My husband makes me stay totally quiet in movies because otherwise it's [five minutes in] and I go, "Oh, so-and-so did it," and he's like, "OK, I haven't even finished my popcorn and you ruined it for me."” FiveMinutesHavensQuietHusbandFinishedMy HusbandRuinedFive MinutesPopcorn Author:Nancy Grace
“It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?” WantFiveQuietBirdIntelligentSupposed To BeSay AnythingSlaughterMassacresTeesSlaughterhousesSlaughterhouse FiveSlaughterhouse 5Slaughter House 5Slaughter House Five Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching her. "A dragon." When he looked bewildered she lifted her arm and pointed to the sky in the southeast. "Right there—that cloud—what do you see when you look at it?" "A fat cloud." Alexandra rolled her eyes at him. "What else do you see?" He was quiet for a moment studying the sky. "Five more fat clouds and three thin ones.” LooksMomentsEyeThreeStudyFiveSkyArmsQuietCloudsFatsDragonsHer EyesJordanBewildered Book:Something Wonderful Source: Something Wonderful