396 Silence Quotes for You to Enjoy

'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do. Jodie Foster

Me Silence People Something Something People Expected Lambs

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing. John Edgar Wideman

Music Art Time Silence Our Our Music Marks Silences Structure Point Shapes Counterpoint African-American Spaces Rhythm Fill

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. John Francis

I think the truest things come from silence, but everything's always so clogged up with noise. If everything falls away, and you can truly listen to someone, giving them yourself and generosity, you can truly lose yourself in what they're saying. Like, not impose your ideas on what they're saying, but really tune into them. Johnny Flynn

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By the time I got to 'Silence of the Lambs,' I was madly in love with close-ups because I'm madly in love with actors, and a basic premise of 'Silence of the Lambs' is the story about two people fighting their way into each other's heads. Jonathan Demme

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money! Jonathan Demme

I'll tell you - what I can tell you is that I know when I saw 'Zodiac' and then again when I saw 'No Country For Old Men,' there was a moment in each of my viewing experiences where I went, 'Dammit, this is scarier than 'Silence Of The Lambs.'' Jonathan Demme

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The whole Orion zeitgeist, of treating filmmakers as partners, to me it's inseparable from the success of 'Silence of the Lambs'. Jonathan Demme

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I always felt that, when I saw Denzel or Viola do scenes in their past films or past projects, that if it's a heavy scene, and it's requiring a lot of emotional weight, that we would have nothing but silence and incense burning in between takes just to keep things quiet. Jovan Adepo

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If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. Joyce Carol Oates

Silence You Yourself Writing Matter Space Car Locate Writer Driving Because Housework Still Doing Walking Wall Behind

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell. Joyce Maynard

Silence Tell Part Wanted Story

People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad as too much noise. Julian Treasure

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The most boring thing in the world? Silence. Justin Timberlake

Silence World Boring Boring Thing Most Thing

Most of the time, people are afraid of silence, and I'm not. Karamo Brown

Time Silence People Most Time People Afraid

There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk! Lady Gregory

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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence. Laura Linney

Silence Entertainment Entertainment Industry Industry Terrified

I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone's apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply. Lauren Groff

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America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts. Laurie Helgoe

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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out. Lech Walesa

Silence Speak Fall Too Out Veil Over Happened Afterwards

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