Alexander Woollcott Quotes

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

No, nothing really upsets me.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

You must preserve supreme calm in the midst of all agitation, never appearing disturbed or anxious about anything that may occur.

I'm cool as a cucumber, baby.

I'm composed, and I'm a calm player.

I'm pathologically calm.

I don't get excited or riled easily.

I have never felt the need to get agitated or hyper about anything in life.

Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

The more they made noise, the more calm I became.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

Remain calm, be kind.

He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.

Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

To be calm when you've found something going on

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger

I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool.

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.