Carl Hiaasen Quotes

Silence is best.

I like silence.

I really love peace and quiet.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

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

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

Quiet is better than loud.

I love silence.

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

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

It was enough just to sit there without words.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

There is something joyous about not talking.

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.

When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.

Take time to be quiet.

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

Silence 'tis awe decrees.

Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.