A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
~By Leopold Stokowski ~
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.
~By Joan Miro ~
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
~By George Catlin ~
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
~By Federico Fellini ~
When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.
~By Britney Spears ~
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
~By Sidney Hook ~
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
~By Marcel Marceau ~
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
~By Dorothy Dix ~
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
~By Cherrie Moraga ~
My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
~By Frank R. Wolf ~
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
~By William Dean Howells ~
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
~By Octavia Butler ~
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
~By Paul Robeson ~
In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
~By Alejandro Amenabar ~
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
~By George Steiner ~
I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.
~By Trey Anastasio ~
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
~By Alice Walker ~
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
~By Walter Elliot ~
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
~By Aishwarya Rai ~
Listen to the sound of silence.
~By Paul Simon ~
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
~By Aime Cesaire ~
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
~By Thomas Hood ~
Music is the silence between the notes.
~By Claude Debussy ~
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
~By W. S. Merwin ~
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
~By Helen Keller ~
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
~By Boyle Roche ~
One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
~By Andre Kostelanetz ~
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
~By Jane Austen ~
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
~By Bernadette Devlin ~
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
~By Marcel Marceau ~
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
~By Steven Wright ~
Silence is the wit of fools.
~By Anatole France ~
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
Silence is more eloquent than words.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
~By Pythagoras ~
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
~By Pam Brown ~
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
~By Nellie Bly ~
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
~By Charles Simic ~
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
~By Brigham Young ~
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
~By Henri Nouwen ~
The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.
~By Peter Sarsgaard ~
Great souls suffer in silence.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Only silence perfects silence.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
~By Charles Buxton ~
In some causes silence is dangerous.
~By Saint Ambrose ~
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
~By Margaret Lee Runbeck ~
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
~By Charles Simmons ~
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
~By Anthony de Mello ~
New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
~By Joanna Southcott ~
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
~By Zane Grey ~
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
~By Elliott Carter ~
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
~By George Eliot ~
No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
~By Ausonius ~
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
~By Loretta Young ~
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
~By Lech Walesa ~
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
~By Susan Sontag ~
Silence is a source of great strength.
~By Lao Tzu ~
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
I refuse to be silenced.
~By Al Goldstein ~
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Speech is the small change of silence.
~By George Meredith ~
To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
~By Elayne Boosler ~
It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.
~By Brittany Daniel ~
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.
~By Curt Weldon ~
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.
~By Cybill Shepherd ~
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
~By Josh Billings ~
Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.
~By Craig Bruce ~
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
~By Aeschylus ~
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.
~By Donald Justice ~
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
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