Zitat des Tages über Stille / Silences:
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.
Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.
I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences.
It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.
Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as her performances.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.