I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
Emily Carr

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
Sandra Cisneros

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
Sandra Cisneros

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.
Dennis Chavez

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!
George Sidney

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.
Jaroslav Seifert

If I had any balls whatsoever, I'd make nothing but Jay and Silent Bob flicks for the rest of my life. However, being a critical whore, I've gotta move on and 'grow' beyond those characters.
Kevin Smith

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.
Mark Russell

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.
Bruce Beresford

In time of war the laws are silent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?
Phil Donahue

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Samuel Johnson

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras

It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.
Eugenie Anderson

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'Connor

It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
Anita Hill

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
Mary Pickford