Quotes About Silence

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

I've held my silence when I probably shouldn't have. But I was in the minority, a woman writing SF, and I was afraid of career backlash. I was afraid of being excluded or losing opportunities if I didn't play nice.

Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.

I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.

I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.

Best said possibly the only thing that would have changed my attitude: 'What will happen to me?' 'Your friend MacLeod will look after you,' I said. Best replied, 'If you get out, I get out.' There was silence for some moments. I thought of all the joy of the early experiments which we had known together. Here was loyalty.

Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.

In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.

What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.

When you are interviewing someone, never let your camera person turn off the camera. The second you turn off the camera, they'll say the magic thing that you'd been looking for the whole interview. People want to relax after the performance is done. Don't be afraid of awkward silence. That is your friend.

We should not silence our nation's researchers.

French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

I believe with a lot of support shows, people are very much there to see the headliner. You don't necessarily have their full attention, and some of what we do requires a lot of silence.

David and I were divorced in 1980, and there has been silence between us ever since. Despite our decade of marriage and a child together, I was airbrushed out of his life. He never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name.

There's a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I've broken our code of silence.

I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.

As women, we can over-think things so much that we silence our intuition and only focus on the reasons something won't work.

People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad as too much noise.

I would have loved to have been in the room with the ABC executives when they watched David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive' TV pilot. You know that had to be a long silence after that thing stopped.

Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.

Millions of children all over the world live in silence and face communication barriers - and, particularly, access to education.

We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

In 'Silence,' there was no improvisation at all; really, you're dealing with a script and a 17th century way of speaking.

There is nothing quite as loud as the silence of an audience when a comedian is on stage.