Quotes About Silence

After I left the 'Daily Show,' I was kind of sitting out for five years. I know what it's like to not be able to have that platform for my voice the way I want it.

I have had so many things that I could say that I never thought at the time it was right so now I never say anything, I am just one of those people that kept myself to myself, I just wanted to play football and that's all I ever wanted.

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

Join a Bikram-flow-yoga, Flywheel, or Pilates class so you can find spiritual oneness amid grunting socialite moms. Do whatever you want. Just, please, for the love of God, stop talking about it.

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.

Nothing can come of nothing.

I can't really comment on rumors.

I can never really comment on rumours.

I have never chosen to comment on any piece of news about me.

People should say 'no comment' more often. No comment! I love no comment. Let's have more no comment.

I don't comment on other people's opinion.

I am not going to comment on what I did or did not say back in the late '90s.

I've never made a comment on a message board in my life.

I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.

As I've gotten older I've got more bass in my voice but also because I don't talk very much during the day I've managed to keep my voice in good condition.

There's been rumors going round. I never confirm any of them.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.