396 Silence Quotes for You to Enjoy

People can say what they want. But you can silence a lot of people when you go out there and win. Sage Northcutt

Silence You People Win Say Out Go Lot Want

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. Samuel Butler

Silence Same Thing Tact Same May Thing

I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole. Sarah J. Maas

Music Me Silence Writing Else Swallows Whole

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence. Sean Bean

Great Silence You Great Deal Think Looks Deal Information Convey

I give a facial expression in a moment of silence for audiences to react to what I just said and kind of let that marinate with the audience for a little bit. I enjoy the physical part of the comedy as much as the verbal content. People tend to gravitate to not only what they're hearing but also what they're seeing. Sebastian Maniscalco

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Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones. Serge Schmemann

The Chinese government has been clear in its goal and purpose for creating and expanding Confucius Institutes throughout the country, namely to distort academic discourse on China, threaten and silence defenders of human rights, and create a climate intolerant of dissent or open discussion. Seth Moulton

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The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Saying there's a silence is a bit like if Columbus, looking to discover a new continent, only sailed 10 miles off the coast of Spain before turning back to say, 'Nothing out there!' Seth Shostak

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#MeToo shows this bias is systemic, that people get away with violence against women, get away with discrimination - whether in work or society in general - because, for too long, silence has been the answer. Sharan Burrow

In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical silence. It seemed the busier my work life would get, the less I had to feed the other parts of my own soul, including the arts. Shervin Pishevar

Life Work Silence Soul Writing Singing Own Gone Other State Musical Honors Would Seemed My Own Maryland Had Songs Feed Parts Get Arts Busier Less Including Chorus

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Silence Poet Response Acceptable Flattering Even

Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night. Simon Van Booy

Work Alone Day Silence Light Face Long Back Writers Fades Hours Pass Coming Often Turns Moment Night

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge? Sophocles

Silence You Charge Supports Know Accuser

I definitely have to make sure I have my Jamaican playlist whenever I go, and you've gotta listen to Popcaan. I really love his song 'Silence,' but the whole album, 'Forever,' is good. I love his melodies and flows. He just knows how to make good songs. Stephan James

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Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning. Stephen Hough

Silence Learning Out Born Concentration

We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion. Stephen J. Dubner

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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. Steve Coogan

With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse. Steve Rushin

My first interview at 'SI,' I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date. Steve Rushin

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I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young. Steven Holl

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I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bomb!' etc., shining and swaying slowly. Absolute silence. I found myself weeping to see the tan, dusty marchers, knapsacks on their backs - Quakers and Catholics, Africans and whites, Algerians and French - 40 percent were London housewives. Sylvia Plath

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To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret. Teju Cole

Alone Saying Best Silence Surrender Wind Secret Responds Out Outside House Him Read Readers Reads Bed How Climb His Times Personal Listen Far-Fetched Each Night

Their silence is praise enough. Terence

Silence Enough Praise

In 'Silence,' there was no improvisation at all; really, you're dealing with a script and a 17th century way of speaking. Thelma Schoonmaker

Silence You Way Dealing Improvisation Script Century Really Speaking

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