Lois Wyse Quotes

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Silence is a still noise.

Quiet is better than loud.

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

It's hard to be natural in a scene when you pick up the phone and no one is there.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

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

Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.

Silence never yet betrayed any one!

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.

Silence is best.

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.

I love silence.

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

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.

I like silence.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I really love peace and quiet.

I am a glutton for tranquility.