Quotes About Silence

Si tu parles, tu meurs ; si tu ne parles pas, tu meurs. Alors parle et meurs.

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

From horrific incidents of police brutality and complicity in indiscriminate attacks by triads on citizens to arbitrary mass arrests and the banning of demonstrations, the government has employed nearly every weapon in its war chest to intimidate Hong Kongers into silence and to suppress their popular struggle for democracy and freedom.

It's a victory when the weapons fall silent and people speak up.

There are three reasons why I live in Scotland. First, I like silence, and you have to be a millionaire to buy silence in Italy. Second, I like cold weather. Third, in Italy I have too many relatives and know too many people, so I never get a quiet time.

Never mention a web site is coming until it's already there.

I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

There's nothing really to talk about with the police. I mean, for what?

I won't talk to the D.C. police.

I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

When Sinead O'Connor tore up the picture of the Pope, you could hear a pin drop. I didn't know it was coming, obviously, because at dress, she had held up a picture of Balkan orphans, which I thought was really meaningful and what she wanted to do.

There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear.

My mom and grandma always told me: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. It's something everyone needs to be more conscious about. Putting more positive energy out into the world would be so beneficial.

I'm pretty much done with political commentary. I've said everything I could possibly say. I've been a big mouth for long enough.

I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother.

In show business, there's a lot of time when you're under contract, and you're not allowed to talk about things.

I sing about the things that I don't have conversations about.

We've got to change the culture of riding the T. It is a civic space for community conversations, but everyone's always really quiet on there.

It might sound cowardly, but I do agree that if you speak out about the casting couch, it will end your career.