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“If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.”

Ifs Reason Feelings Lines Nice Effects Wall Depends Balance Quiet Patterns Architecture Judgement Vertical Horizontal Good Judgement

Author:William Morris

“I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.”

Fall Waiting Silence Steps Watches Feet Wall Quiet Shots

Author:Trey Anastasio

“What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.”

Mind Stills Rooms Position Wall Quiet Sitting Empty Wicked Continuing Pillow Quiet Room

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“I don't know, it's dorky. Just like quotes and stuff. Something I want to see everyday or something I want to be there. I don't know. I can put a hole in the wall if I want. It's mine. It's very simple. It's a very tiny house, but I can do whatever I want to. I can rip up the terrible vinyl floor and recycle it. Just create a good space. A quiet place to be.”

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Author:Justin Vernon

“I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.”

Writing Used Wall Quiet Walls Up

Author:Ann Patchett

“The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“The Set animal’s jaws were pried open so fast that it yelped and let go of my arm. I stood, now encased in a magical barrier twice my normal size, and kicked Leroy into a wall. Good! said Horus. Now dispatch the beast to the netherworld! Quiet man. I’m doing all the work.”

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Author:Rick Riordan

“There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the town dark and dreaming beyond your own walls. It draws the truth out of you, straight from its little dark pool down there, where usually you guard it so careful, and wave your hands over it and hum and haw to protect people's feelings, to protect your own . . . You can bring out the jaggedest feelings - if you are my wife and know how to state them calm - into the night quiet. They will float there for consideration, harming no one.”

“Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.”

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Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.”

Ifs Want Heart Long I Can Moments Eye Opportunity Chance Gone Mines Wall My Heart Quiet Waste Clock Pale Unseen Fleeting Surviving Blink Tick Blink Of An Eye Million Little Pieces

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat–like figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. “In mass, [children] terrify me,” he admitted.”

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.”

Book:Sever

Source: Sever