The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

- Anne Enright

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

- A. R. Ammons

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

- Adam Baldwin

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

- Deepak Chopra

'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

- Geraldine Brooks

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

- Gillian Anderson

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

- Georg Trakl

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

- Jim Elliot

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

- Melissa Etheridge

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.