Quotes About Silence

Silence is also conversation.

Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.

I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.

A leader who cobbles together his self-esteem by attempting to silence or libel his critics and by amplifying his echo chamber is a dangerous one indeed.

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.

Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.

Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don't like something, they let you know - with silence.

I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

I've actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you're getting booed, and it's fun to try to silence the crowd.

'The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas - not run away from them or try and silence them.

So, if I ever find myself hankering for the long, respectful silences of the olden days, I remind myself that classical music broadcasting was a whisker away from becoming one long silence itself.

When I get by the ocean, that's the only moment that I get that silence and that connection, not with the ocean, but with myself.

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Dead silence is so much more foreign to me than people screaming at me, good or bad.