Quotes About Silence

When there's a dead body in the room, you never, ever answer cops' questions without your lawyer present. Which is to say, your lawyer answers the questions by saying, "We have nothing to say at this time.

Sometimes silence is the best question.

Find out what the cops know before you tell them your version. And always call your lawyer!

I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.

Secrets upon secrets. Thus by inexorable degrees does the love that dares not speak its name build walls instead, till a house is nothing but closets.

Shut up and listen. Research shows that people who interrupt are three times more likely to die of a heart attack than those who don't and that marital relationships usually fail because of too much communication, not too little. Couples who spend a lot of time being quiet together stay together.

Meeting a Zen master on the road, Face him neither with words nor silence. Give him an uppercut And you will be called one who understands Zen.

When the mouth opens All are wrong.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

I contemplate my last moments and wait for the explanation I know will not be offered.

The words of the prophetsAre written on the subway wallsAnd tenement hallsAnd whispered in the sounds of silence.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Patience, patience. Patience dans l'azur chaque atome de silence est la chance d'un fruit mûr !

Come, speak low. The dark is not so dark.

But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something?... Can he ever remain solitary with himself -- and silent to his very soul!

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm...you will triumph." Paul Valery via Miriam Toews

Passief ondergaand of actief ingrijpend, zwijgen of spreken. Het ene is ziekmakend, het andere helpt ons gezond te blijven.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

In the end you learned to live with things once you stopped talking about them.

Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.