Quotes About Silence

Listen more than you speak.

To choose to be silent in any scene sometimes has more notes in my script than when you chose to speak.

As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by some of my fellow liberals to silence commencement speakers with whom they might disagree on some issues.

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

You know when you are in the peloton and you come near the Ventoux, nobody's speaking anymore, you can hear a fly, because it's always very quiet because everybody's afraid about the Ventoux, because it's a hard climb.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn't speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural.

There comes a place where you need to respect. When people are speaking, you don't comment.

Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.

I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself.

In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.

When your work speaks, you don't need to speak at all.

In 'Uthamaputhiran,' 'Velaiyilla Pattathari' and 'Yennai Arindhaal,' I was a mute spectator to everything.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.