His special quality, as far as I can tell, is stillness.
Gladstone tells me that stillness comes naturally to people from Montana.
'I've gone for a look of emptiness and stillness,' she was telling the picture editor.
The coaches were all impressed, with Adam Levine telling her, "I felt the stillness in this room, because everybody was so completely enamored with what you were doing, that they just couldn't speak".
Loraine Martin, 63, an office administrator who lives under the airport's flight path, told Reuters that the stillness took her back to the 1950s, when Heathrow was still a relatively peaceful airfield and jet engines had yet to take to the skies on commercial aircraft.
The hotel's architect, Rolf Rothermel, an Englishman who lives on Providenciales, told me that the stillness of the water and the rarity of boats on the channel made the view his favorite on the island.
Growing up, Miyagi had a great interest in rakugo, or "fallen words," a form of theatre where a single actor sits more or less in stillness and tells a comic story, sometimes with sentimental overtones.
"Hopper is always on the verge of telling a story," observed novelist and art critic John Updike, referring to scenes whose very stillness suggests that something is about to happen.
Beyond the stillness at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, behind all those handsome old Craftsman facades, there's no telling what the restless minds and bodies of this valley will come up with next.
She tells them "to pitch their stillness around the world until it comes back to them".
