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“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.”

Ifs Hard Reading Opportunity Pleasure Attention Our Lives Land Quiet Conversation Intimate Restaurants Distraction Noisy Land Of Opportunity Pleasure Of Reading Intimate Conversation

Book:The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

“When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.”

“The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.”

Age Youth Quiet Aging Noisy Vacancy

Author:Mason Cooley

“Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease. Then the substratum will rise up to the top. It is simple. Follow this.”

Simple Quiet Surface Cease Dialogue Noisy

Book:The Truth Is

Source: The Truth Is

“Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the restless, noisy spirit of the day, and encourage to speech the soft voices within you that timidly whisper of the peace of the quiet night; and occasionally look out at the quiet stars. The night will soothe you like a tender mother, folding you against her soft bosom, and hiding you from the harm of the world.”

World Looks Stills Self Spirit Lying Mother Night Stars Peace Voice Sleep Forget Quiet Speech Harm Hiding Nurse Within You Restless Bosoms You Again Noisy Folding

Author:Max Ehrmann

“Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.”

People Mind Looks Art Might Groups Quiet Realms Museums Squares Noisy

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.”

Parent Fronts Television Quiet Adults Noise Noisy Prozac

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.”

Way Asks Black White Habit Quiet Neat Bad Habits Noisy Stripes Sloppy Good Habits Happy Day Quiet Time Zebras Sad Day White Stripes

Author:Shel Silverstein

“If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.”

Ifs Inspirational Color Quiet Rainbow Lively Colorful Noisy

Author:Mel Brooks

“If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.”

People Ifs World Feels Wells Book Hands Might Evil Reading Greater Quiet Sitting Filled Library Good Book Pledge Noisy Troublesome Sirens Greater Good Proclaiming Schism Sitting Quietly

Author:Daniel Handler

“YOU WILL ALWAYS BE THE ONLY ONE FOR ME ' - I always want to be with you more than with anyone else. I always want to talk to you before anyone else. I always want to laugh with you * walk with you ? * read with you * play with you * be quiet with you * be noisy with you make plans with you discuss the past and future with you You will always be the person who makes me happy, content, excited and peaceful No matter how much time passes our love will not only prevail but it will be stronger than ever.”

Want Persons Matter Play Past Walks Laughing Plans Quiet Stronger Excited Peaceful Our Love Make Me Happy Noisy Time Passes One For Me Want To Be With You Stronger Than Ever

Author:Susan Polis Schutz

“It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.”