Silence Quotes - page 60

In silence the heart raves. It utters words Meaningless, that never had A meaning. (Robert Penn Warren)
Anyone got a van?[Silence]That's right, you never see them any more, do you, vans. Trying to spoil my DVD? View quote
Harry Hill
I understand that there's a large party of Scottish people here tonight...[Silence]I'll kill that researcher! View quote
Harry Hill
Silence,” it has been said by one writer, "is a virtue which renders us agreeable to our fellow-creatures. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
It is tact that is golden, not silence. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets,. Hear it? It's a love song. For whom? You are loved. View quote
David Foster Wallace
Think not silence the wisdom of fools but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity. View quote
Thomas Browne
In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desart knows: - "I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone, "The King of Kings; this mighty City shows "The wonders of my hand." - The City's gone, - Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose The site of this forgotten Babylon. We wonder,- and some Hunter may express Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace, He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess What powerful but unrecorded race Once dwelt in that annihilated place. View quote
Horace Smith
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence. (Walter Lippmann)
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. View quote
Jonathan Franzen
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't. View quote
Steve Coogan
What is all this? Let him conceive it if he can, express it if he knows how, if he desires to; if one can it is licit, but it is better to shut up as one should; because it is here that our intuitive joy, respectively and mutually in us both, speaks, not of this nor anything like it, but something infinitely other than this, by its profundity, and perpetual and ineffable silence. View quote
John of St. Samson
I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space. View quote
Tom Ford
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. View quote
Marco Rubio
I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel. View quote
Charles Kennedy
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words. View quote
Enoch Powell
Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison. (Thomas Merton)
I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it. View quote
Thomas Merton
People are also more keenly and painfully aware that a large part of the Church is in one way or another linked to those who wield economic and political power in today's world. ... Under these circumstances, can it honestly be said that the Church does not interfere in "the temporal sphere"? Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to a dictatorial and oppressive government? View quote
Gustavo Gutiérrez
I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all. View quote
Amitav Ghosh
Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. View quote
Pablo Neruda