I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
Jonathan Lethem

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
Roy Orbison

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
Andy Hertzfeld

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
Mercedes McCambridge

I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
Namie Amuro

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
Barry Levinson

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
Ron White

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
Sammy Hagar

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
King George V

I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.
George Grossmith

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
Catherine Deneuve

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.
Alain Resnais

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Publilius Syrus

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
Al Lewis

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Muriel Spark

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
Edward James Olmos