Silence Quotations | Page 3

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.

What a little vessel of sadness we are, sailing in this muffled silence through the autumn dark.

We're doing it in drama, comedy and alternative. But right now a lot of the stuff is under the cone of silence in the development world.

We're going to be under the microscope every time we step on the field, and the way we silence it is if we go out there and win. I can't wait to get out there and show the country what kind of football team we are.

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

No one nor anything can silence me.

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

Silence, nothing is better.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

You should learn to say nothing that will cause you regret. You should not say what is not in your heart - or what is only in your heart for a moment. But you know this - silence is better.

If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.

How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.

With this disproportionate sentence ... the judges are clearly trying to silence the journal.

Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold.

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

Tavoris Cloud might actually be hungrier than me. How often do you hear a fighter say that his opponent is hungrier than he is? I don't need hunger. I'm motivated by my desire to prove that I'm different and that I can still silence the critics.

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.

Whenever they would seem to be getting any momentum, we stepped up and would silence the crowd and silence them. We just played hard and made plays when we had to.

We can't stand the silence because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.

To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

You have to keep people engaged until you get them through the next commercial. I'm not complaining about working in TV, at all, but just as an artistic reaction, I find myself being so drawn to moments of silence where things are allowed to breathe.

Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects preamble and summary. It's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence. …The short poem is a match flaring up in a dark universe.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

Being a lady does not require silence.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.