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Quotes About Silent

Hope is never silent.
~ Harvey Milk
I got my start in silent radio.
~ Bob Monkhouse
Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.
~ Helen Levitt
Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
~ Walt Whitman
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written -- as long as I keep my senses, at least.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
~ Albert Einstein
Some things you cannot leave behind. Your history will pursue you doggedly across frontiers and over oceans. It will slip past the unsmiling border guards, fold itself invisibly into the pages of your passport, a silent, treacherous stowaway.
~ Alex George
The word LISTEN contains the same letters as the word SILENT.
~ Alfred Brendel
Blessed is the era that can honestly claim that it is not a desert wilderness. Woe, however, to the era in which the voices calling in the wilderness have fallen silent, shouted down by the noise of the day, or prohibited, or drowned in the intoxication with progress, or restricted and quiet out of fear and cowardice.
~ Alfred Delp
I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
~ Chevy Chase
I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.
~ Michel Hazanavicius
Russians don't complain, usually.
~ Ian Frazier
Pain has been part of my life. I don't complain about much. When you grow up with six boys, you can't show your pain, and if you do, they'll give you another piece of pain.
~ Jim Kelly
People either think Hodor is a very easy character to play or a very difficult one; there's no in between. But it's a lot of fun having to completely switch personalities inside four seconds, with no words. That's a joy for an actor to get to show all that complex emotion in such a short space of time.
~ Kristian Nairn
Meditation puts reason in its authority and preeminence. It helpeth to deliver it form its captivity to the sense, and setteth it again upon the throne of the soul. When reason is silent, it is usually subject; for when it is asleep the senses domineer. . . . Reason is at the strongest when it is most in action. Now, meditation produceth reason into act (573).
~ Richard Baxter
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs
~ Richard Crashaw
On segregation, the presidency has held silent since Reconstruction.
~ Richard Powers
Why Isn't It All More Marked? Why isn't it all more marked, why isn't every wall graffitied, every park tree stripped like the stark limbs in the house of the chimpanzees? Why is there bark Left? Why do people Cling to their Shortening shrifts? So Silent. Not why people are; Why not more violent? We must be So absorbent. We must be Almost crystals Almost all some Neutralizing chemical That really does Clarify and bring peace, Take black sorrow and make surcease
~ Kay Ryan
Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
To be altarless is to be voiceless
~ Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.
~ J. Edwin Orr
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer.
~ George E. Rees