Silent Quotes

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

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.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

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.

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

In time of war the laws are silent.

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

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

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.

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

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner.