Silence Quotes - Page 98

Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.

A pause followed my greeting. Then “We’re watching you ” whispered the voice on the other end. “Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys? ” Silence. Then dial tone. These younger demons. So easily discouraged.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

Silence is a still noise.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

"Silence Of The Lambs" is definitely very frightening.

When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy.

I like the way you can stretch things out and leave a huge amount of space that, on a record, would feel like silence. I enjoy the possibilities.

Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.