Quotes About Silence

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.

We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

The Election Commission stopped me from campaigning. I accepted it and reached people through my prayer - in silence. People gave their approval. Praying in silence is important, and this spiritual prayer has paid off.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

My first interview at 'SI,' I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

I've put everything in my rearview mirror and I've continued to silence people. That's how I'm going to... continue to be happy living my life. And in the process, I silence haters.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

Only silence perfects silence.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

We win with facts that are well expressed and frequently communicated; we lose with silence and indifference to the broader social context.

Sometimes silence is the best way to shut down an awkward conversation.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.