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Quotes About Silence

Ho pensato che se tu avessi parlato con Arseni, io ti avrei certo ucciso, ecco Ernestina. Ma con una calma grande, l'ho pensato, forse, neanche di questo mondo, devi credermi. Ho pensato al silenzio degli alberi, dell'acqua, e avrei voluto che anche tu fossi tutta silenzio, come loro...
~ Silvio D'Arzo
Boy with the name and face I don't remember, you can stop shouting now, I can still hear you.
~ Simon Armitage
the kind of music that God must hearing, no matter how busy or distracted, because it comes out of hundreds of square Miles of nothingness, out of the emptiness of the hills and the silence of the moors ...
~ Simon Armitage
If I breathed the word That disappeared all people in the world, leaving the world to the world, would you say it? Would you sing it out loud?
~ Simon Armitage
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words .... and his silences.
~ Simon MacDonald
Gordon Carter raised both hands for silence. 'The answer to all your questions is: "I have no idea." Sorry, but there it is. Now, I have a pile of marking to do, and intend to get on with it. I'm sure you have a chemistry textbook or something you can look at.' General groans greeted that. 'Or I could always set you a lovely essay … We could recap some of our Merchant of Venice if you prefer?
~ Simon Mayo
This is like when we have an argument," Happy said to Melody. "And you go stomping around the room, being mad at me but refusing to say what's wrong because I'm supposed to know. And I never do.
~ Simon R. Green
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
~ Simon Van Booy
He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true—but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We're all famous in our own hearts anyway.
~ Simon Van Booy
The telephone about to ring.
~ Simon Van Booy
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
~ Simon Wiesenthal
Does the woman in there have a scar like this?" Their stunned silence told them she did.
~ Simon Wood
I want to tell her how much she's become the center of my being. But I can't. The words won't come.
~ Simone Elkeles
If no words come, you can always give him the finger.
~ Simone Elkeles
Some things need to be left unsaid.
~ Simone Elkeles
To hand warmers," she says with a smile on her lips. "To hand warmers," I agree. And sex, I add silently. "Do
~ Simone Elkeles
You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill.
~ Simone Elkeles
Secrets she'll take to the grave and secrets she's dying to share.
~ Simone Elkeles
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
~ Sir Ralph Richardson
And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Our passions are most like to floods and streams,The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
~ Sir Walter Ralegh
Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne'er so witty;A beggar that is dumb, you know,Deserveth double pity.
~ Sir Walter Ralegh