Quotes About Silence

Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

She might have looked her thanks to Gabriel on a minute scale, but she did not speak them.

Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. Boldwood's look was unanswerable.

To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement.

kar??l?k? duygular?ndan çok az konuÅŸuyorlard?, böylesi s?nanm?? dostluklarda güzel cümleler ve s?cak ilgi gereksizdi muhtemelen….

Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear.

All that silence and absence of goings-on is the stillness of infinite motion.

Hello Clarice...

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.

He looked up and saw her and his breath stopped in his throat. His hands stopped too, still spread above the keyboard. Harpsichord notes do not carry, and in the sudden quiet of the drawing room they both heard him take his next breath.

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

The lambs will stop for now. But, Clarice, you judge yourself with all the mercy of the dungeon scales at Threave; you'll have to earn it again and again, the blessed silence. Because it's the plight that drives you, seeing the plight, and the plight will not end, ever.

The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible.

Graham switched on the lights and bloodstains shouted at him from the walls, from the mattress and the floor. The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room full of dark stains drying. Graham sat on the floor until his head was quiet. Still, still, be still.

Well, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?

Who's the subject? The psychiatrist - Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Crawford said. A brief silence follows the name, always, in any civilized gathering.

When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me.

Silence and no lambs screaming.

in the absolute dark she could hear the tiny clicks her eyes made when she blinked.

Good-bye, Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?

Han dejado ya de llorar los corderos, Clarice?

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent