Silence Quotes

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.

Their silence is praise enough.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Silence is so accurate.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

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

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

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.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

In some causes silence is dangerous.

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

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

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

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Your silence will not protect you.

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

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.