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Quotes About Silent

Night is filled with our loudest fears and a silent courage.
~ Terri Guillemets
Photographs are wordless history.
~ Terri Guillemets
He didn't lurch awake as many people do after a nightmare. Instead, his eyes opened and he waited silently for the world to flood back to him.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
That's the thing about being a janitor, or maid, any type of custodian. You glide unseen, like a fish underwater.
~ Guillermo del Toro
The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a man hits his wife. A profound sadness settled over the earth...God was silent in every language. The angels tried to dry their tears, but their handkerchiefs were so soaked through that is started raining even in the deserts.
~ Guus Kuijer
A cloud began to cover the sun slowly, wholly, shadowing the bay in deeper green. It lay beneath him, a bowl of bitter waters. Fergus' song : I sang it alone in the house, holding down the long dark chords. her door was open : she wanted to hear my music. silent with aw and pity i went to her bedside. she was crying in her wretched bed for these words, Stephen : love's bitter mystery.
~ James Joyce
Not yet, Shryne said, as if to himself Then you're his apprentice? His eyes darted right and left, searching for some means of escape. Is Sidious also in league with Emperor Palpatine? Vader fell silent for a moment, making up his mind about something. Lord Sidious is the Emperor.
~ James Luceno
There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
~ James Madison
The question of race was like the power of the moon in my house. It's what made the river flow, the ocean swell, and the tide rise, but it was a silent power, intractable, indomitable, indisputable, and thus completely ignorable.
~ James McBride
what you would get if you ran a mime over with a steamroller? A silent film.
~ James Patterson
Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.
~ Kenneth Anger
I would've been a really big silent movie star.
~ Caitriona Balfe
For the Revolutionary generation, silent virtue almost always would be valued more than loud eloquence.
~ Thomas E. Ricks
And as the smart ship grewIn stature, grace, and hue,In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
~ Thomas Hardy
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
~ Thornton Wilder
The best thing about animals is they don't talk much
~ Thornton Wilder
You don't have to be noisy to be effective.
~ Phil Crosby
Abra said nothing at all. He didn't even wink at Po. He just kept his face exactly as blank as Po's. It was the Mayan way of laughing at somebody right in front of them, without being rude or starting a fight.
~ Orson Scott Card
I don't know the words for how she looked at me -- there are few words -- it was a welling up, a rising, a lifting up on the surface from the water; it was the sort of thing that could not be told.
~ Colum McCann
Lightning stood in ragged chains far to the south, silent, the staccato mountains bespoken blue and barren out of the void.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nothing is more frightening then a fear you cannot name.
~ Cornelia Funke
What of their passions lying stiff and untranslated in their breasts?
~ Cristina García
Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
~ Walt Whitman
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson     done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the     themes thou lovest best, Night, sleep, death and the stars. — Walt Whitman, "A Clear Midnight," Leaves of Grass. Originally published: July 4, 1855.
~ Walt Whitman