Silence Quotes

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
George Catlin

Sadness, Fire, Him

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.
Devon Werkheiser

Nature, Nice, Head

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey

Talk, Simply, Sound

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.
Brian Williams

Wrong, Known, Taken

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
William Drummond

Love, Everything, Able

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.
Lance Morrow

Power, Forget, May

Silence is the unbearable repartee.
Alexander Theroux

Unbearable, Repartee

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.
Budd Schulberg

Sure, Hollywood, Sign

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
Alejandro Amenabar

Movies, Today, Playing

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
Alfred Jarry

Counts, Applause

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
Thomas Starr King

Country, Answer, Orator

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.
Diana Gabaldon

Work, Night, Talk

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
Ausonius

Please, Speaking, Briefly

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

Wisdom, Lonely, Children

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
Pierre Bourdieu

Successful, Words, Ask

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?
Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

Find, America, Keep

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
Aime Cesaire

Great, Knowledge, Born

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.
Brittany Daniel

Nights, Lambs, Meets

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
Robert M. La Follette

War, Before, Party

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.
Donald Justice

Others, Land, Burden

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
Michel De Certeau

Great, Real, Secret

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic

Experience, Poetry, Words

Some things we must pass over in silence.
Greg Iles

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. Merwin

Dead, Except, Teachers

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
Andre Kostelanetz

Greatest, Sound, Complete

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
Bob Monkhouse

Golden, Seldom, Misquoted

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
Mark Stevens

Best, Reflection, Random

Strong efforts may be made to deny the place, to silence the authentic, but the spirit of things will break through that silence.
John Haynes

Strong, May, Through

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