Silence Quotes

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

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

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.

Silence is the wit of fools.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

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

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

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.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

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

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.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

Silence is safer than speech.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.