Quotes About Silence

example. Every effort to get the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations even to consider our denunciations was fruitless. We sent that organization detailed information about the tortures, the murders, the plans to blow us up with the explosives installed in the Circulars, but it did nothing. The prestigious Commission on Human Rights had deaf ears and blind eyes for what was happening in the Cuban political prisons.

It was more than knowing or not knowing, beside stillness and shouts, memory and images of the future.

This document and scores similar to it were at the foundation of cultural, political and social change throughout the ages. Secret brotherhoods with one credo: to know, to dare, to be silent.

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

Ci sono quattro tipi di persone: quelli che stanno zitti e non fanno niente, quelli che parlano dello star zitti e non far niente, quelli che fanno qualcosa, e quelli che parlano del far qualcosa.

"… the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.""The dog did nothing in the nighttime.""That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

If you're the Queen you don't need to say anything and you don't get into trouble. If you're the Duke of Edinburgh you say a lot of things, sometimes too many, and you do get into trouble.

A lot of people told me I should be quiet about being bisexual and not say anything, but for me this is a part of my identity.

The number one rule of fishing is be quiet. Don't scare the fish!

All quiet along the Potomac.

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

When I was writing 'Bad Behavior,' I was very, very quiet. I would just sit there and listen to people. And if I was out in public, I was usually quiet, and people tended to assume I was stupid because I was a young, pretty girl who's quiet.

Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it.

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.