Quotes About Silence

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

I used to bottle up all of my emotions and never say anything. Even if something really made me mad, I'd be quiet.

There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.

I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break.

If any syllable that I utter might be interpreted in 13,000 different ways, then the best way for me to never be tarred and feathered is to never open my mouth. So the next time that someone calls on me for an opinion, you know what? I won't say a thing.

If I were queen for a day, every city would have to spend one hour in utter silence: no music in shops and restaurants, no honking of horns, no conversations on mobile phones. Only birds would be allowed to sing.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It's very difficult to audition for comedy in the vacuum of a small room, but it's the only way most do it.

When people are uncomfortable - and many people are when they have to negotiate - they start rambling as a way to fill the vacuum of silence. Some of the strongest negotiators I know just sit back and listen. The less they engage, the more likely the other person is to slip up and offer information they otherwise would have kept guarded.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Different people have different things that trigger them to realize their situation was not OK. In events like the #MeToo Movement, there are many cases where it took decades for someone to talk about their situation. That doesn't mean their stories aren't valid.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

His eyes fixed on mine for an instant, then he turned back to the fire. The

She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.