Silence Quotes
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Silence is my dignity.
Hansika Motwani -
Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
James Broughton
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
Rachel Nichols -
The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
Elisabeth Elliot -
Climate change is not an excuse to silence political speech.
Luther Strange -
Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.
Freya Stark -
I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
Om Malik -
With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
Ma Jun
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There's a degree of deception in silence.
Don Lemon -
Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
Taylor Swift -
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.
Agyness Deyn -
I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.
E. L. Konigsburg
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Faith Baldwin -
The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.
Ellen Key -
Those who saw him hushed. On Church Street. Liberty. Cortlandt. West Street. Fulton. Vesey. It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
Colum McCann -
The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.
Emily Dickinson -
In some causes silence is dangerous.
Saint Ambrose -
I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone's apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply.
Lauren Groff
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
Bebe Neuwirth -
I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
Rachel Kushner -
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