Silent Quotes

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

In time of war the laws are silent.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and everything because honestly it's a silent black-and-white film.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.

The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

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.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

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

Now I'm the go-to-girl for silent films.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.