Quotes About Silence

Do you know—" he began, then stopped. He looked down at his clenched hands, then, not at me. A blue stone winked on one knuckle, bright as a teardrop.

TWO DOWN," Roger whispered.

The lawyer had gone a mottled red and gray, like a bad oyster, but said nothing. Jamie

Oh, God, John!" he said. I stopped dead, halted much more by the tone of that voice than by the words—it was broken with an emotion I had seldom heard from him. Walking very quietly, I drew closer. Framed in the half-open door was Jamie, head bowed as he pressed Lord John Grey tight in a fervent embrace. I stood still, completely incapable of movement or speech. As I watched, they broke apart.

Nothing." He pulled his

Then came the sound of a single pair of footsteps, and then the whoosh and creak of someone settling heavily into a chair. There was silence for a moment. Then Lord John said "You can get up now, if you wish. I am supposing that you are not in fact prostrate with shock," he added, ironically. "Somehow I suspect that a mere murder would not be sufficient to discompose a woman who could deal single-handedly with a typhoid epidemic.

Ring the bell, close the book, quench the candle

Que todo el mundo se calle —ordenó con firmeza—. Voy a leer.

ROOM FOR SECRETS

For a friend, John," he said. "And if I'll take your friendship—and your damned boat!—then you'll take mine, and keep quiet. Aye?

I just always assume no one is listening.

I know I'm not the only guy that's had problems in life. And it seems to me that a lot of athletes shy away from talking about things that may have happened to them or their families.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives.

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I don't want to sit by the edge, like some other guys who have played their game. Earned money, have nice lifestyles, and don't say anything.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.

I love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes, too.

I guess I don't want everyone to know what I'm doing every second.

I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

Arnau! Sí, era el mismo grito que un día lanzaron en silencio los ojos de una muchacha a la que había traicionado, en la masía de Felip de Ponts.

People drown, quietly, before our eyes, all the time.