Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"Quiet people have the loudest minds."
Quiet People quotes
Quiet People
18 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Rollo May
Psychologist, Author
"In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger."
Kirsten Miller
Author, Educator
"Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait."
Joyce Carol Oates
Author, Poet
"The quiet people just do their work."
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"He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give."
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"Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting."
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"No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!"
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