Beth Revis Quotes
She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.Beth Revis
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
Valerie Plame -
When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
Walter Murch -
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
Frances Bean Cobain
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
Pat Nixon -
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson -
I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
Walter Salles -
I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013.
Lorde -
Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?
Joanne Rowling -
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
Auguste Renoir
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These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
Bill Vaughan -
I once heard someone doing a karaoke version of my song. That was pretty funny.
Rachael Yamagata -
She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.
Emma Orczy -
And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.
William Hamilton Maxwell
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What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.
Mark Hart Crowded House -
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
Honore de Balzac -
Actually, who are you not to be?
Marianne Williamson -
She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.
Beth Revis