Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.

One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.

I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.