Quotes About Silence

Las manos femeninas hacen milagros en silencio —pensó—, él probablemente habría roto toda la vajilla, en realidad ni siquiera habría sido capaz de llevársela». Contempló a la señora Grubach con cierto agradecimiento.

Nie jest konieczne, by? wyszed? z domu. Pozosta? przy stole i s?uchaj. Nawet nie s?uchaj, czekaj tylko. Nawet nie czekaj, b?dz ca?kiem cicho i sam. ?wiat sam si? przed tob? ods?oni, nie mo?e by? inaczej, b?dzie wi? si? przed tob? w ekstazie.

Somos oprimidos por un silencio que nos ahoga y queremos romper.

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Historically marginalised people - by gender, race or nationality - aren't willing to be silent any longer on the crimes of the past and the continuing misrepresentations of historians.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.

What I am already dreaming about is the roar of the take-off, followed by the absolute silence as we go into orbit, and then seeing Earth outside my window.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

The women at all levels of the entertainment industry - from interns to Oscar winners - who kept quiet to protect their careers should be a lesson to every CEO and HR department.

I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

I always map out how to get a good eight or nine hours of sleep before I even start my day. And my rule is to put my phone on silent when I go to bed; that way, no texts or emails can disturb me.

If my energy was fake, then I would feel pressured, because I gotta, like, keep this up. I thank God it's just how I am. But I find myself wanting to work on being more comfortable in the silence with people.

When you are standing in a corner at the party, when you've arrived early for the meeting, when the doors have closed but the lift won't start, there's nothing worse than being lost for words.

The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play.

Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.

All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

Everything that has to do with sex is somehow... it's the best thing in the world, and it's still the one thing people don't want you to talk about.

This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.

The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.