Quieter Quotations

I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night.

I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.

I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do with the fact that writing takes up a lot of space in your head. My ideal is to go back to when I was a child. My life is quieter than it used to be. More and more I don't really want to talk to people. I'd make a good nun, actually.

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

I think, in a lot of ways, it's easier to play a smaller room. You can exploit the quieter dynamics you would shy away from in larger venues.

Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth.

I'm terrified of being poor, I always have been. It's growing up as a Methodist. I'll spend that bit of extra money to get a better seat on a train sometimes, because it's quieter and calmer, but I refuse to spend money on clothes.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

One reason to come to Port Elizabeth was because it was nice to come to a so-called quieter place. To prepare at our own pace without people looking over our shoulder and instead to build intensity from within our own camp.

One hole, you could hear the birds singing away, like there's nobody on the course. It's definitely a lot quieter out there than you normally hear around Augusta, besides the one big cheer we heard. And we obviously all knew that was Tiger.

People will see systems that can be faster, smaller and quieter with longer battery life and lower electric bills.

Let's face it. It's obviously a time for caution. People are a bit quieter and taking things a bit slower.

She was a little quieter before this game than she is most. This means so much to her.

From my experience in Washington, the quieter things are, that means progress is being made, or they are close to a resolution.

Because this belt has more asteroids than ours, collisions are larger and more frequent, which is why Spitzer could detect the belt. Our present-day solar system is a quieter place, with impacts of the scale that killed the dinosaurs occurring only every 100 million years or so.

He was electrifying to me. He's exciting. He excites people around him, and he tried to get people excited around him. That's what you try to get your seniors to do. Some of them do it, but they do it in a quieter way. But this guy, he can't hold back.

I always get them mixed up. Andrew gave Ben a shorter haircut. Andrew has more of a blonder colored hair. Sometimes, they play along with it. Ben is the quieter one. Drew is more outgoing.

He's just working it out. He seems to be a lot quieter at the plate. He's getting the head of the bat out in front.

My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.

Our main leader (last year) was Jason (Ellis), who is probably one of the better players to ever play at Boise State, but he was one of the quieter ones, too. That was tough on our team.

Later this year it will fuel new dual core processors and quad core processors in 2007 that we expect to deliver industry leading performance and capabilities per watt. People will see systems that can be faster, smaller and quieter with longer battery life and lower electric bills.

It is a very busy numbers week and today is one of the quieter days -- unless the (new homes) number today is a big surprise.

I think we could re-write the book a little bit. The other sort of traditional way of looking at the market is that you get a summer rally. And I suspect that we will get a positive bias to this market at some point in time over the next couple of months. However, I do think that you're probably in that quieter period for news and developments in the technology sector.

There are a lot of fun activities at a time when you can generally count on decent weather. April skiing and snowboarding is affordable, it's accessible, it's a little bit quieter experience than you encounter in January, and that can make for a better overall experience.

We didn't want to leave our home. I never felt anti-Semitism there or anything like that, but we were living in fear: You would go out and didn't know if you would come home again. So we decided it was worthwhile living a safer life, a quieter life, even though we would have to sacrifice a lot to be here. We came with only our bags, nothing else.

Today wasn't much of a day. There was a lot of positive news and the economic data was good, but the reaction was a very quiet, almost muted one. Tomorrow may be even quieter in terms of volume as we approach the end of this holiday-shortened week.

Electric will be quieter around the houses in some areas of the course.

Everybody thinks about it a bit. You try not to. This year it seems a little bit quieter around our place, which is good with us.

The supporters have been far quieter than the people who have found problems with it.

The strength of Aiken's housing market is principally retirees and families moving from Florida or looking for a quieter community with all the amenities and great quality of life.

The quieter things were, the more things were going on,

To some extent everybody is a little exhausted. In the absence of big news we'll see a quieter day. It feels like we were hit by a tidal wave over the past three or four days and today is like the aftermath, picking up the pieces.

No question it has been a challenging week. But it's a reminder to us all that life in the NFL doesn't get quieter when you have some success.

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

People up here liked the quieter versions. But kids would like the rock 'n' roll version.

'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.

This time, Gore didn't roll his eyes. He kept his head still. He didn't sigh. It was a quieter effect. But it also seemed very contrived. He lost some of his statesmanship this time because he was too polite and making an effort not to appear aggressive.

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

In his quieter moments he sounds like his trousers are on fire

The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have passed, ... The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience.

The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have past. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience.

It's definitely quieter out there than you normally hear around Augusta.

Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.

They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.

It was pretty flat, pretty subdued. I expect quieter volumes for the balance of the week.

It's interesting because our athletic directors, presidents and commissioners are quieter than they've ever been. There were so many different opinions leading up to the decision on the format that I think people are just enjoying the relative calm and quiet now that it's in place.

The boys were just 15, 16 years old, cutting up when we walked into the room. It got a little quieter when they saw us. Then James said something and gave them a look, and that's all it took. Everybody got quiet. I never knew anybody who was as respected by his peers. He didn't demand respect. He commanded it. The great ones have that. They have a presence.

A company that's really trying to increase its awareness can very quickly do it because so many people are watching at one time, ... The gala around the Super Bowl ads has become so well known ? I've observed parties where people actually are quieter during the ads than they are during the game.

It's smoother and quieter to drive on by a long shot.

It's somewhat of a contradiction, ... I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.

It's a seasonal phenomenon. The Chinese market gets quieter in the summer months.

It was quite risky to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm kind of trying, I think, to lure readers into a false sense of security and then assault them with a couple really loud, really strange stories.

It was, in part, summer days like this one that drew the Lincolns here to higher ground, where the breeze blows more and the visitors can breathe a little easier, ... It was quieter here and a place to reflect.

According to the manager, we had some people driving in and out. We get a little suspicious if we see more than a few cars there (of people who don't live there). It seemed there was more activity after the office closed late at night. More people outside. We asked the police for more service, and apparently they responded. It's been a lot quieter at night.