Silence Quotes
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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Never say anything unless you have to.
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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When a monk takes a vow of silence, is he still allowed to post messages on the Internet? Chances are God won't find out. Being ancient, God probably can't work computers. He holds the mouse gingerly, like it's made of fine china.
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Silence is my dignity.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.
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We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
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There was a silence. Outside, and most unfortunately, a boy could be heard calling to another boy: ‘Piss off, Cowie.’ Stern looks were fixed on Woolton.
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Most of the time, people are afraid of silence, and I'm not.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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I aspire only to silence.
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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
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Speech is the small change of silence.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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Silence is a protective coating over pain.
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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.
