Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
Bob Newhart

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Epictetus

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
George Steiner

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
Lech Walesa

Listen to the sound of silence.
Paul Simon

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Octavio Paz

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
Jean Racine

Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
Marcel Marceau

Music is the silence between the notes.
Claude Debussy

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'
Al Roker

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
Frank R. Wolf

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

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

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
Joanna Southcott

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

No one nor anything can silence me.
Dmitri Mendeleev