“You've been quiet lately… but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.”

“I’m real excited. I’m so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can’t keep quiet about it.”

Ralph Smart

“Cultivate quietness in word, quietness in deed, likewise in speech and gait; and avoid impetuous eagerness, for then the mind will remain steady, and will not be agitated by your eagerness. … For the mind, seated on high on a quiet throne looking intently towards God, must control the passions, … so that your quietness may be adorned by good proportion and your bearing may appear something divine.”

Clement of Alexandria (150–215) Christian theologian

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

Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer

“Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“Get me a drink of water, please, and something to quiet my belly. It’s rumbling so much I can’t hear myself think.”

John Brunner book The Tides of Time

“It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.”

Sherman Alexie book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.”

Anna Kavan (1901–1968) British artist

“Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”

Tracy Chevalier book Girl with a Pearl Earring