William Wetmore Story Quotes

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

William Wetmore Story

• Silence
• Expression
• Quiet

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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.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Expression

• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Quiet

• Beauty without expression is boring.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Expression
  • Boring

• I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Person
  • Thought
  • Expression

• When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Dance
  • Listening
  • Quiet

• 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?

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Good
  • Know
  • Quiet

• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Speak

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• 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.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• 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.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• I like to have quiet evenings and relax.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Like
  • Relax
  • Quiet

• To restore silence is the role of objects.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence

• 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.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Suffering

• 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.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Silence

• 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

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Children
  • Light
  • Eyes

• Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Wisdom
  • Sleep
  • Silence

• You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Art
  • You
  • Create

• I was looking for joy Yes, yes, yes, yes When I was little bitty boy If I would have known what makes a world go 'round I would have known what goes up must come down If you love me like I love you Mademoiselle, je vous aime, voulez-vous?

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • World
  • Joy

• Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

  

  William Cowper
  • Fall
  • Waiting
  • Tea

• Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Night
  • Audience
  • Nervous

• The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Problem
  • Democracy
  • Criticism

• Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

  

  William Wetmore Story
  • Silence
  • Expression
  • Quiet