Rem Koolhaas Quotes

Silence is best.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

Quiet is better than loud.

Only silence perfects silence.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

I like silence.

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

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I really love peace and quiet.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

There is something joyous about not talking.

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

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

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

Silence is a still noise.

How silent are the winds!

Stillness overcomes heat.

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

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.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

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