Adrian Lyne Quotes

I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

The very pointlessness of a sea walk is it's attractiveness to me.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

Silence is so accurate.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

I aspire only to silence.

I love silence.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

In my down time, I'm a homebody. I like to do a walkabout. I like my alone time.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

By all means use some time to be alone.