Garry Robbins Quotes

The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.

Garry Robbins

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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

• As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • People
  • Pay
  • Protect

• And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Silence
  • Write
  • Own

• If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Children
  • You
  • Protect

• 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

• There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Done
  • Opinion
  • Silence

• 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

• Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • May
  • Words
  • Challenge

• To restore silence is the role of objects.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence

• To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • 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

• And rather than make the book unwieldy I have eschewed notes-reluctantly when some obscure passage or allusion seemed to ask for a timely word; with more equanimity when the temptation was to criticize or 'appreciate.' For the function of the anthologist includes criticizing in silence.

  

  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Temptation

• In secret we metIn silence I grieve,That thy heart could forget,Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years,How should I greet thee?With silence and tears.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Long
  • Heart
  • 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 sometimes the severest criticism.

  

  Charles Buxton
  • Silence
  • Criticism

• I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

  

  Darren Shan
  • Music
  • Silence

• Great souls suffer in silence.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Great
  • Silence

• Silence is more musical than any song.

  

  Christina Rossetti
  • Song
  • Silence

• In: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937); in: 'Silence: lectures and writings by Cage, John', Publisher Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, 4/SILENCE

  

  John Cage
  • Music
  • Future
  • Silence

• I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

  

  John Alec Baker
  • Life
  • Water
  • Silence

• But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Need

• I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I know I've always loved poetry, I've always loved writing poetry and I've always loved sharing poetry. I've also always known that I wanted that to somehow be a very large part of my life and I'm very fortunate that it's such a large part of my life.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Morning

• There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • Mind
  • Hand

• The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.

  

  Garry Robbins
  • Silence
  • Protect
  • Ministry