Quotes About Silence

La neve cadde tutta la notte. Cadde senza fare rumore e coprì il terreno gelato e le foglie morte sotto l'acero, e piegò i rami delle conifere, e per ore e ore cadde come farina dalle nuvole alte color madreperla.

insults were exchanged, but never conversation" (p.17).

A wise man knows when to speak and when to stay quiet.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.

I remember when I used to go to coaches' meetings and stuff like that and I would never say anything - I would just sit in a corner and sometimes coaches wouldn't even shake my hand.

I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.

I scarcely talk to reporters at all.

If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.

In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.

If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.

In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection.

The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

I have the impression that every word is a word too many. I'm constantly holding myself back.

In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

The more I make films, the more I feel less inclined to talk about them and just let people watch them. I feel that the pictures are telling the story, and I can't really add anything except just talking about the technicalities of what happened on the day.