Paul Simon Quotes

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

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• Silence is also conversation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Silence
  • Conversation
  • Also

• I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Silence is my dignity.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Silence
  • Dignity

• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

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

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Speak

• I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Written

• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Think
  • Written

• People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

  

  Dana Hill
  • People
  • Think
  • Rest

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• 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

• I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.

  

  Valerie June
  • Records
  • Loner
  • Relaxing

• Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Silence
  • Same

• I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Love
  • Silence
  • Listen

• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Age
  • Night
  • Memories

• 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

• I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Grief
  • Sorrow
  • Maps

• But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Believe
  • Opinion
  • Humble

• If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Want
  • Win

• Bob Hope: By the way, this is where Bing did his last show and I think they've done very nicely. They've gotten most of it out of the curtains.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Done
  • Hope

• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Guns
  • Village
  • Thieves

• The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Silence
  • Written
  • Whispered