Quotes About Silence

Jane?" She lifted her brows. "Yes?" "If you so much as hum one word, I shall stuff one of your gloves into your mouth." "Tsk,tsk."She assumed an exaggerated sad look."It's like that,is it?

But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.

I raised the ratio of things I thought to things I said from three to one, to four to one, to five, to six, to seven. I still thought as much as ever, and sometimes I imagined the responses I would have gotten if I had spoken up and what I would have then said next, and so on and so on. Without the release of talking, these thoughts crowded my brain. The inside of my head turned clamorous and outlandish, like the Mos Eisley spaceport bar in Star Wars.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable

So much talking makes it hard to listen.

One word," he breathed into her ear, so low no one would be able to hear. "One word from your idiot mouth and next time I'll finish the job, I swear t'God." He nuzzled, his lips seemingly caressing her outer ear. "Understand?

In the brief silence, an antique clock ticked with a sound like stones falling off a ledge.

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Sara was reminded of yet another one of Will's traits, which was that he had an uncanny knack for keeping his mouth shut when he didn't know what to say. This resulted in the sort of awkward moments that made Sara's dating life look downright ebullient.

I'm not sure," Callie said. "As you know, cats choose not to talk because they're afraid we'll make them pay taxes.

He shrugged. "Are you going to answer me?" "You told me to shut up.

Andy opened her mouth and screamed as loud as she could. It felt good, but she couldn't scream for the rest of her life.

They sat like that, neither of them talking, both of them incapable of expressing how they felt, until Cathy stood at the top of the stairs and called them up for dinner.

As perhaps the Russians would tell us, 'When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.

Any cop would tell you that the best way to get someone to talk was to be quiet. There was a natural, human inclination to fill silence with noise.

Cash was like sex. You didn't talk about it unless you weren't getting enough of it.

Why were there no cries of birds, no sounds of life, other than the incessant murmur of the brooding pines?

Where all meaning disappears, and all certainty vanishes, something arises deep inside man: the self-preservation of his essential identity. This identity preserves itself through endurance - I have to face my destiny in silence - and through the courage to live and the courage to die with dignity.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

Last words are for fools who haven't said enough

Normally you can't hear your own voice cos you're talking over it

Marina, you took away all the words with you...

Her amused, silent evaluation hammered my spine with spikes of frozen fire.