William Wetmore Story Quotes
Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
Quotes to Explore
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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I like to have quiet evenings and relax.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.
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The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.
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While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
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What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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The idea that an actress - mostly lauded for her performances in more than a dozen films - somehow represents a threat to Iran's national security is laughable at best. But in Ahangarani's case, far from anything humorous, the allegations have actually resulted in the sober prospect of real prison time.
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My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.
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We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
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Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
