Quotes About Silence

One sure way to ruin American credibility in the Arab world is to sit silently in Damascus and look like you're part of the Assad show.

I'm not a critic, and I never talk about other people's work.

I love it when people criticise me. There is no better feeling than when you make them quiet.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

If I'm around a boy I have a crush on, I can't even talk most of the time.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.

I never talk to tabloids.

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

For 10 years, Kosovo was taboo. No one could officially tell the truth.

There's this huge taboo around talking about money that we have as a society.

Wanting money has been made so taboo. We're not allowed to talk about it or admit we want it, and yet we use it every single minute of our lives.

Fosse would say that it's important to trust silence. He very much liked the use of the tacit, or silent, count, where nothing is happening. He also liked percussion. His is a world of angular movement and mystery, quiet, semi-taciturn and percussive.

My father wasn't just taciturn - it was like he didn't want to be heard.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.

The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.

I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that... I've always done 'less is more.'

Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

Dead men tell no tales.