Quiet Intensity Quotes

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.

I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is where most feeling is. I don't myself spend my life shouting in rooms, and I don't really believe things in which people do spend their time in total hysteria.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.

While doing 'Ghazi,' Sankalp said he wanted me for his next film. He is a genius. There is always a mini-war going on in his brain, though he is a reticent person.

The silence was an intense roar.

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.

Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.