Silent Quotes

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?

Peter Jackson

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Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

Nick Turse

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If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

Mark Russell

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I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

King George V

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It's the demand of all demands to do a car chase that's unique because there are so many... really since the beginning of film, even in the silent era, 'The Keystone Cops.'

James Gray

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What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

Herta Muller

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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Gertrude Stein

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I'm a huge Dallas Mavs fan. What I love about Dirk Nowitzki is he has just as much talent as everyone else, if not more, and he never toots his own horn. He's this silent warrior.

Erin Wasson

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Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.

Emil Ferris

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Charles Lamb

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At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

Alberto Fujimori

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Voltaire

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History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Paul Eldridge

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To me, the zombies have always just been zombies. They've always been a cigar. When I first made 'Night of the Living Dead,' it got analyzed and overanalyzed way out of proportion. The zombies were written about as if they represented Nixon's Silent Majority or whatever. But I never thought about it that way.

George A. Romero

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See and keep silent.

Francis Walsingham

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New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.

Joanna Southcott

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Elias Canetti

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The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

Robert Reich

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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

Walter Murch

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For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.

Jean Dujardin

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Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonders which have been shown to me by the Lord, who knew all things even before the time of this world, many years before, just as they happened.

Saint Patrick

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A good girl in Afghanistan should be silent, should not talk about her future, should listen to your family, be like a doll so that everyone can play with her.

Sonita Alizadeh

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Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

Octavia E. Butler

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