We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
Quotes about taciturn (10 Quotes)
I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.
Time Management Tips One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still manageable and while we still have a choice. The organizational adage, 'the more parts, the more trouble,' also applies to words. Multiplying words may actually multiply the probability of being misunderstood economies in expression (without being taciturn or aloof) not only save time, but usually are more honest and more clear. Regarding writing down thoughts and ideas often we never recover what came to us once and went unused. What is the wisest use I can make of this sliver of time Commit rather explicitly to goals.
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
She thought it would be hard. There's an aura around Koufax. He's thought to be the J. D. Salinger of baseball, the pitcher's version of Joe DiMaggio. I knew what the established wisdom was, ... He's a recluse. He's dour, taciturn, aloof.
I think the contents of the encyclopedia will offer surprises to even a born-and-bred New Englander. New England is much more than the traditional taciturn Yankees, town meetings, and maple syrup. It is an important region not only for its past, but the present and the future.
Stifling laments, milling shadowy hopes,
taciturn miller,
night falls on you face downward, far from the city.
We had a man as dashing as Sheridan, as unique and picturesque as the slow-moving, taciturn Grant, as charming as Jackson, as witty as old Billy Sherman, as brave as Paul Jones.
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.