For me, the heavy thinking and processing comes in the quiet hours after the kids have gone to bed.
It was only in the quiet hours that I felt the lethal dread.
Prices would start from as little as 2p a mile on quiet roads outside rush hours.
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She knows she is just too chipper for the lead car, which is a quiet car during rush hours.
The main square, Romerplatz, seems to be enjoying its last few hours of quiet, in the knowledge that it is about to endure three days of the Three Lions chorus.
"So much talk on Twitter of Steve Jobs, but Twitter HQ has been eerily quiet the past few hours save the clicking of keyboards he tailored, " tweeted Mark Trammel, a Twitter designer.
When I arrived late on a sun-drenched Friday afternoon in June, the place was a hub of inactivity: I met a foursome whose ambitions for the evening extended to gin-and-tonics taken in Adirondack chairs on the patio, and two other guests who were wrapping up a few hours of quiet fishing from the dock.
In a period of a little less than two hours, this quiet assassin landed 10 striped bass, using a jig and an expertly-wielded five-foot spinning rod.
It seems to serve a different purpose now, a couple of older gentlemen shuffling in and out of the library during the three hours we spend there, each staying quiet, seated alone at a small table, reading novels and history books from off the shelves.
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In a zero hours scenario, if cardiology is having a quiet day, the cardiologist might be asked to spend the day at home, unpaid, watching television or doing the gardening, rather than being paid by his or her NHS Trust for tidying the desk.
Every available spot of land is taken by a tent, and the usually quiet single road in and out of town can be backed up for hours before, during and after the holiday.
When one curmudgeon shot them a "keep it quiet" glance, one of the students replied cheerily, "I didn't drive 16 hours not to yell!"
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