Quiet

Famous quotes containing the word quiet:

“... his
different
quiet, not quiet at all, a tumult
of images, but what are his images,
he is blind? He doesn’t care
that he looks strange, showing
his thoughts on his face....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)

“Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)