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Quotes About Silent

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
~ Sammy Hagar
For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.
~ Jean Dujardin
It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'
~ Kevin Brownlow
You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.
~ George Whitefield
The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.
~ Robert Reich
Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and everything because honestly it's a silent black-and-white film.
~ Penelope Ann Miller
I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.
~ Arnaud Desplechin
I was a real mess at school. I got a bit of a reputation for being the weird girl: the girl who'd go silent randomly and just kind of write down replies to people's questions in a book.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
~ Kevin Brownlow
My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.
~ Kent Beck
You gotta trust your artist. I love writing pages without dialogue, which seems weird, I guess. But few things are as powerful in comics as a really strong silent page.
~ Jason Aaron
It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
~ Parker Posey
Donald Trump is actually the voice of the silent majority, and I think he's awoken that silent majority. People are very angry, and the people who are the most angry are actually the legal immigrants who see their jobs fleeing.
~ Michael Cohen
I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.
~ Bill Irwin
In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent killer.
~ Elizabeth Flock
I watched a lot of silent movies. It's a very specific way of writing, which is more of a challenge than the directing. You have to describe images. It's easier to shoot them.
~ Michel Hazanavicius
The majority of the time... the people that are critiquing and bashing me, they're making me more relevant, I would think. If you didn't want me around, then just don't talk about me, and try and make it silent out there.
~ Roman Reigns
In most of his films, Upendra has a harsh and rough demeanor, and Sudeep also has a very massy commercial image. In 'Mukunda Murari,' though, their characters require them to be very different and near silent.
~ Arjun Janya
I have always been a silent person and I don't have any jhamela with anyone.
~ Rituparna Sengupta
My father had been an avid fan of Chaplin during the silent film days, but when the talkies came along, my father lost all interest in movies.
~ Claude Picasso
People influence each other, so one screening will be filled with laughs while another is dead silent.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
Honestly, I always had the silent ambition of being a director.
~ Arbaaz Khan
I think the myth about the 'silent generation' is just that, a myth.
~ David Dellinger
I think television will do the same thing to radio that talkies did to silent movies.
~ Van Heflin