Bryan Procter Quotes

Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.

Silence is best.

Quiet is better than loud.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.

The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

Only silence perfects silence.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

I like silence.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I really love peace and quiet.

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

There is something joyous about not talking.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.