When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
On Stripping Bark from Myself (for Jane, who said trees die from it) Because women are expected to keep silent about their close escapes I will not keep silent and if I am destroyed (naked tree!) someone will please mark the spot where I fall and kno...
Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.
I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.
...when the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority...
Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.
That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)
The Christian should be the man with the flaming imagination and the beauty of creation.
Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.
When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.
If I remain silent, the proper response is, “You don’t say.
He’s being silent again. Tell him to be quiet.
Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Hay, por mucho, demasiadas víctimas silentes. No porque no anhelen hacer contacto, sino porque lo han intentado y no han encontrado alguien a quien le importe.
There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.
A true love is not shouting and yelling for your beloved, but silently struggling for her honor
Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
