Quotes About Silence

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

I would never presume to give anyone advice.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, which also meant, perhaps, that we didn't truly communicate.

In my day-to-day, I might speak, like, 10 sentences.

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

I was almost afraid to speak on the things I've dealt with as a woman.

When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.

I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.

The first four years of my career, I never complained. I never demanded. I never said anything about money.

I'm one of those people that, if I'm sad or depressed, I don't talk to people about it. I bottle it in.

Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends.

I don't vocalise things that don't deserve attention.

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.

I don't need dialogue to convey emotion or thoughts to my audience.

I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.

It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.