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

• Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• 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

• She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its craving, the soul-priapism, huge lust and fierce to her, clamour for her to realize with me that mightiest marriage-dream, that Sacrament of Satan that may be consummated only beneath Night's dome, in utmost silence, because its Elements are not symbols of things, but They themselves.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • May
  • She
  • Soul

• 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

• I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.

  

  Om Malik
  • 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

• One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Home
  • Hands
  • Lifetime

• and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Balance
  • Silence
  • Equal

• Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;Or at least, faith unbelief.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Joy

• In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

  

  John Webster
  • Air
  • Greatness
  • Bubbles

• There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

  

  Dick Wolf
  • Why
  • Professional

• 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