To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to… — Tyson Fury Copy Share Image
“I think about my own silence. Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear. I guess that’s why… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“By quieting externally, you gain the space internally. Life is a flow - it goes on. Good or bad, it will always… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“Silence is the language of the cosmos. From the smallest stone to the sun itself, they all communicate through silence, greatly rich… — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
“It was as though the house had been left empty but a minute before and yet that minute was fraught with eternity… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There was a long silence while they sat there staring at each other, a moment that was rudely interrupted by the sound… — Philip Caveney Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it would even happen that this precocious hour would sound two strokes more than the last; there must then have been… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Well, I guess I don't say much, unless I've got something to say. Makes me not a lot of fun at parties.… — Amelia C. Gormley Copy Share Image
Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
“It's like the silence that follows the beautiful song. Or the darkness that follows the glitter in the air. He knew what… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Now I know without a shadow of doubt that you can't chase away those images, let alone the visible holes that burrow… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“For a moment the man from London and the woman in mourning considered each other in silence, each gauging temperament from the… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel Copy Share Image
Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Snipers learn to silence the chaos of their thoughts until only the target and the shot exist. In that silence lies mastery,… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
“I listen to silence. And you have a lot to say. Although I haven't quite figured out what it is yet…I promise… — Rebecca Donovan Copy Share Image
“The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“When I go to the bar, I never drink much. And to do that I avoid conversations, as silence reduces saliva and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
¢ Your silence has been with me and I have let it have its say. I feel, as always, the same closeness… — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Don't force someone to remember you all the time. Just stay silent let them realize... how they will be without you in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.” — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
You must not be afraid of small bits of silence. To use it well is the height of confidence and skill for… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence. "There is much I don't understand." "That will never change,"… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than… — Martina Cole Copy Share Image