Quotes About Silence

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

Caramelized white chocolate is a mind-blowingly simple and delicious technique that will silence all the alleged white-chocolate haters out there.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

Some secrets are meant to be taken to the grave, and that's what I plan on doing with all mine. They're not necessarily my secrets to tell. I'm the gatekeeper of other people's secrets.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all.' In high school, we should say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, shut your mouth.' So that's what I'm telling high schools all around the world.

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.

It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

When people come to understand how big the Universe is and how short a human life is, their hearts cry out. Sometimes it's a shout of joy. But for most of us it's a cry of terror. The terror of extinction, the terror of meaninglessness. Our hearts cry out. Maybe to God, or maybe just to break the silence".

When people come to understand how big the universe is and how short a human life is, their hearts cry out. Sometimes it's a shout of joy: I think that's what it was for Jason; I think that's what I didn't understand about him. He had the gift of awe. But for most of us it's a cry of terror. The terror of extinction, the terror of meaninglessness. Our hearts cry out. Maybe to God, or maybe just to break the silence.

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

The tree cannot walk, all its going must be violence. They listen to the saw cut, the roots scream. And in eating even a stalk of celery there will be pathetic screaming.

Don't know. Like I said, she wouldn't say much. He was her Prince Charming." "Sounds more like the toad," Kins said. "That's an insult to toads.

There were signs, for sure—bruises and missing teeth—but nobody wanted to see them. If they did, they'd have to act. So they ignored them. And the beatings continued. Nobody wanted to get involved in other people's business, especially their business behind closed doors.

He'd gone back to speak to the bartender at the Yakimanka Bar, but the man had gotten a rapid case of the three monkeys. He no longer could see, hear, or speak of the shooting.

Then a few started getting scholarships. Money talks, friend. The complainers got quieter than a nun in the confessional." "He