Quotes About Silence

Even in the early Eighties, when I was one of the most successful models in Britain, I didn't really have a voice. Time after time, when I should have spoken up, I simply walked away.

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.

Music says the things that people don't say or are afraid to say, and that's the best part about it for me.

My Rottweiler really don't talk much. He just bites.

I feel like everything with me gets blown out of proportion. I think it's because I'm so quiet about things that people just run with anything they hear.

You can tell when someone recognizes you and they want to say something, but they don't want to bother you.

I don't worry about being bothered by the media. Either I'm going to talk or not talk.

Even with me, there are so many things I have bottled up.

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

My mind starts to work creatively past 10 P.M. or 11 P.M. - all of a sudden there's silence and my head starts going.

With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is wonderful, but you have to have the confidence to make you realize it's fine. You can't suddenly wobble and think, 'They're not interested.'

When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Many people with mental illness suffer in silence, afraid to seek help for fear of victimisation.

The more painful incidents of racism I chose to forget, to suffer in silence, or use humour to deflect rather than confront. I didn't want to be the angry black man.