Quotes About Silence

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

If you look at the old 'Mod Squad's, there was a lot of space in between our dialogue.

The Left wants to silence conservative Christians in the media and in the political square.

As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

The truth is, women don't stand up, they're too hushed, they don't like to say stuff.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.