Harvey Fierstein Quotes

In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself...

Harvey Fierstein

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• He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Memories
  • Lifetime
  • Regrets

• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Long
  • Song

• I believe with a lot of support shows, people are very much there to see the headliner. You don't necessarily have their full attention, and some of what we do requires a lot of silence.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Believe
  • Support

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Silence
  • Same

• To restore silence is the role of objects.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence

• I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Silence

• We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Time
  • Forever
  • Silence

• To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

  

  Plato
  • May
  • Silence

• Great souls suffer in silence.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Great
  • Silence

• For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.

  

  David Wong
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • World
  • Silence

• My hobby is silence.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Silence

• Be silent always when you doubt your Sense.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Doubt
  • Silence
  • Senses

• Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Silence

• Mansplaining is a sexist term designed to silence men via gender shaming.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Men
  • Silence

• Another mother's breaking Heart is taking over When the violence causes silence We must be mistaken.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Violence

• Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Past
  • Silence
  • Wind

• At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in silence for so long, this good woman who refuse to believe she's good, for only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Silence

• The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Silence
  • Escape
  • Melody

• High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • High
  • Achievement
  • Expectation

• My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • School
  • Friend
  • Best

• In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself...

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Silence
  • Lifetime
  • Acknowledge