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Silence Quotes

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

Children Silence Language Unhappy

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

Smile Love Silence Sleep You Settle

Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.

Business Silence Book Quiet Become

The whole Orion zeitgeist, of treating filmmakers as partners, to me it's inseparable from the success of 'Silence of the Lambs'.

Success Silence Me Whole Partners

There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

Silence Opinion I Can Done Film

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

God Faith Silence Night Mean Answer

No one nor anything can silence me.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Silence Me Anything Nor

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

Live Silence Earth Living Strange

I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want a jumble of other people's voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don't create static in that silence.

Silence People Writing Isolation Way

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

Silence Burden Way Land Others Ease

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Federico Fellini

Silence Chaos Think Speech Meaning

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

Silence Criticism Sometimes

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Christine Pelosi

Silence People United Voices Court

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

Daniel Barenboim

Silence End Note Middle Before Many

It never occurred to me that I was important enough to have some politician go out of his way to silence me. I only found out about it in the '80s by accident - a broadcaster announced they received letters of commendation from the White House for having suppressed my music. My career was so highly impacted in the U.S. it will never recover.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Music Silence Me Enough Career Go

My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our whole lives are changed because of a revelation that never quite happens but almost bubbles to the surface.

Silence Table Three More Never Sit

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Edgar Allan Poe

Silence Saying Genius True Something

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Alexander Theroux

Silence Unbearable Repartee

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.

Work Silence Story Doubt Long Tell

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Women Peace Silence Wise Mind Done

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

Brittany Daniel

Silence Kind Like Nights Meets

French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

Men Silence Tough You Bad Know

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

Culture Silence Uncomfortable Know

I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.

Music Silence Me Writing Whole Else

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