Famous quotes containing the words quiet, sounds and/or heard:
“Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 17:1.
“Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“For Nym, he hath heard that men of few words are the best men,
and therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest ‘a should be
thought a coward.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)