Silent Quotes

You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

This love is silent.

Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.

My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security.

When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural.

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.