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Silence Quotes

We win with facts that are well expressed and frequently communicated; we lose with silence and indifference to the broader social context.

Richard Edelman

Silence Win Facts Lose Context Well

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

Silence Thought Soil Flourish Any

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Words Silence Understand Will Your

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.

Music Silence Sleep Ring Matter

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

Silence You Know Charge Accuser

Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.

Moment Experience Silence Present

There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.

Marianne Williamson

Power Woman Silence Mystery Powerful

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Silence Poet Response Even

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Music Silence Book Will Way Sound

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

Marquis de Sade

Today Silence Opinion Long Privacy

Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.

Travis Bradberry

Hate Silence Talking Information Try

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

Music Time Art Silence Losing Play

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

Character Silence Mind Road Story

My hobby is silence.

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

Culture Silence I Am Space Listening

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Silence I Am You Go Know Never

The AIDS epidemic began before I was born - I've never known a world without it. And yet, despite its omnipresence in our lives, there remains a pervasive silence around AIDS among young people, particularly young women.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Women Silence People World Born

Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.

Music Today Silence Present Jokes

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

Great Words Silence Relationships

What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.

God Experience Silence Me Matter

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

Love Silence Now Rare Because Came

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

Love Silence Happy Person Way Very

There are three reasons why I live in Scotland. First, I like silence, and you have to be a millionaire to buy silence in Italy. Second, I like cold weather. Third, in Italy I have too many relatives and know too many people, so I never get a quiet time.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Live Time Silence People Weather

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

Michelle Malkin

Silence Speak Surrender Now Ground

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