Quotes About Silence

But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.

E quando, nelle silenziose notti gelate, puntava il muso a una stella e ululava a lungo come un lupo, erano i suoi antenati, ormai ridotti in polvere, a puntare il muso a una stella e ad ululare lungo i secoli attraverso di lui

Any time I say anything about Dream Theater... Honestly, I'd rather not talk about it. Because no matter what I say, it will be twisted and... So I kind of have made myself promise that I won't talk about Dream Theater anymore.

I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

By the time I got to 'Silence of the Lambs,' I was madly in love with close-ups because I'm madly in love with actors, and a basic premise of 'Silence of the Lambs' is the story about two people fighting their way into each other's heads.

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

A touring comic's typical day roughly amounts to an hour of being laughed at and 20 minutes of being photographed. The other 22 hours and 40 minutes are spent in silence.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.

Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.

I would not want to be unable to talk. Imagine not being able to talk when you're a talkative person.

Silence is accepting the unacceptable when it comes from anybody.

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

There's so many times when you see into the lives of these women in Gilead, and it's just unbearable. It's a fate that's just, I don't even know how to say it. I don't have words.

It's funny, the power of music. I was watching 'Dracula,' the 1931 version with Bela Lugosi, and the only music you hear is at the very beginning of the credits. There's not one other piece of music; it's all silent. It's unbelievable, and it's very effective, too.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.