Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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!
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
I continued to protect him with my silence.
Pittsburgh, for a while, became a production centre. There was one $400 million year. Hollywood was bringing productions in there. Films like 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 'Innocent Blood.' So my guys, the guys I worked with, were able to have careers and live at home. But then it dried up, and a lot of my friends left.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
Climate change is not an excuse to silence political speech.
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
Silence is a source of great strength.
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
