Quotes About Silence

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly.

I lived around the man who was the model for Buffalo Bill in the movie 'Silence of the Lambs.'

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

I continued to protect him with my silence.

And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.