There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
Never silence your testimony. It's meant for someone else; not you.
You'll learn. Silence and apathy are the best ways of saying Fuck You
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada.
The most deafening sound in all creation, is the sound of absolute silence.
When your mind is quiet, when your mind is in silence, then the new arrives.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze at Gershon, and Gershon did not look away. "I will tell you, Loran what is of importance is not that there may be nothing. We have always acknowledge...
Writers are people who write. By and large, they are not happy people. They're not good at relationships. Often they're drunks. And writing—good writing—does not get easier and easier with practice. It gets harder and harder—so that eventually ...
An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love" – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It i...
Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sor...
Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the ex...
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it was impossible to express in words. I discovered that I felt at home a...
Sometimes during our lives, the Universe ensures that we come back into the silence. If we don’t consciously stop in our busy lives, we may have perceptively negative things happen in our lives, sickness, change, events that force us to stop and be...
Hannibal Lecter: "Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center." Sounds charming. Clarice Starling: That's only a part of the island. There's a very, very nice beach. Terns nest there. There's beautiful... Hannibal Lecter: [cuts her off] Terns? Mmh. If...
