"When I first came in (a couple of years ago), I talked to the dean and said, 'You know, scientists and engineers are known for a lot of things but they're not really known to be quiet people, '" Colegrove said.
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Last night, the place was more quiet as people left after working out.
Lots of unbacked-up PCs are going to die a quiet death in people's houses.
The roads in Colombo are eerily quiet and most people are just glued to the news.
"The idea really is to provide a beautiful, comfortable, quiet lounge where people can come if they'd like to and sit amongst the cats, " Ms Dyas told BBC News.
All across Minnesota, the quiet, decent people who believe in Good Government and Working Together to Resolve Differences are leaning forward in disbelief at the thought that the next Governor of their state might be THIS GREAT BIG HONKING BULLET-HEADED SHOVEL-FACED MUTHA WHO TALKS IN A STEROID GROWL AND DOESN'T STOP.
Suburban life these days is so much a matter of people living quiet lives of separation.
During the guilty plea proceedings, the gallery was quiet, with some people sniffing and wiping away tears.
"To be an entertainer with just a guitar, you have to be an amazing person to make people be quiet and listen to you, " Adam says.
But as his baseball career enters his final months, Rivera has found pleasure in quiet moments with everyday people who perform the often thankless jobs of the baseball world.
But it was his quiet thoughtfulness that most irritated people.
The killing of the border guards in central Kashgar occurred at around 8am, also a quiet time, since most people follow an unofficial local time two hours behind the Beijing hour on the clocks.
But you have to take into account that there are people, silent, quiet, you know, sick with hatred over race in this country.
Despite the thousands on the streets of cities, a survey earlier this week had suggested many people were planning a quiet evening in.
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Local people described the family as quiet and respectable middle-class Catholics with no history of odd or criminal behaviour.
The BBC's Jonathan Blake says the crimes have shocked people living in a relatively quiet part of north Tulsa, and that there is a fear that the killer may strike again.
An eerie, expectant quiet surrounds the town centre as clusters of people line the roads.
We are all attracted to people who exude a strong foundation and quiet confidence.
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The office seemed almost eerily quiet and untroubled, a room full of stylish people wearing headphones and instant-messaging one another.
So some people claim to be puzzled by the quiet talks the easy-going president has started with the heads of the country's main political parties.
There were people standing around but it was eerily quiet.
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In the third terrorist attack in 18 months on Egypt 's Red Sea coast, three suicide-bombers attacked the quiet resort of Dahab, killing at least 24 people, most of them Egyptians.
Other crimes, that may be even more serious but are committed by those further up the income scale such as the quiet murder of dozens, possibly hundreds, of people by a middle-class doctor are dismissed as outlandish one-offs.
Not only that, quiet and refinement are qualities that are guaranteed to get people's attention.
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People who knew him described him as a quiet man with no friends who spent a lot of time on the internet.
But even before this crisis, each and every one of us knew that there were millions of people across America who were living their own quiet crises.
Perhaps some people might just want to use it for a quiet moment or two.
Even from several blocks away, I was beginning to see a growing throng of people gathered outside rare for the usually quiet, cobble-stoned streets of SoHo.
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