Quotes About Silence

I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being.

Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

Whether you're praying, meditating, you're getting silent, relaxing your mind... and you definitely want to train hard - in the weight room, on the track. You need to do all of it.

I don't listen to music. I know it's weird, and I have no explanation for that. But I never do.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

I am too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace or to welcome it except as an occasion for expressing openly a shame which many Americans feel, day after day, helplessly and in silence.

Newsflash for any of the current, past or future Survivors out there... when you contemplate strategizing about the other team, the best idea is to shut up and keep it to yourself. You're welcome; this bill is in the mail.

I still ask myself the same questions every woman asks. Was it my fault? Did I say or do something to make him feel like such an advance was welcome? And like most women, I never told anyone. Instead, I just quit.

It's a rule when you're welcomed in the Marvel family that you have to understand that you're going to be living in a code of silence.

A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

If I'm walking down the street, and if a person abuses me, the dignified thing to do is to keep walking, but if that person starts throwing stones into my home and affects the well-being of me and my family, then that silence is no longer strength; that silence becomes weakness.

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

One knows something is important when the powers that be choose not to acknowledge it in public.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

It seems like when I don't talk so much, people praise my performances more.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!

There was a misunderstanding with Barca. Something happened that I didn't like, but I prefer to keep it for myself.

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

Calvin Coolidge was one of the best presidents. Why? Because he did absolutely nothing.