“A hush is a dangerous thing. Silence is solid and dependable, but a hush is expectant, like a pregnant pause; it invites… — Ruth Hogan Copy Share Image
I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“You do not command me. The silence went on and on, painful and breathless, like a singer overreaching to finish a phrase.… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Then there was this empty silence-a hole in the noisy crowd. Troy watched me, Dad watched Troy watching me, and I watched… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Words were his delight; Hers, a gay gracefulness Of dancing and moving. But when to the place Of deep loving (Starlight at… — Theodore Spencer Copy Share Image
I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don't think for a single moment, "To be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been… — Christabel Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“Go deeply into the urge to be silent and not the mental interference of how, where and when. If you follow silence… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
We must remind people that there is no typical or predictable person suffering from addiction, and that their pain must be met… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence helps you to go inward, that… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“When God keeps silent, be watchful with diligence; that is the moment the world whispers the most alluring suggestions.” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows… — Al Neuharth Copy Share Image
“But the solitude in Ohio is different from that of most other places. There is a certain silence to it, a certain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With 'Psychosis' we didn't want to have any silence on the record so the whole record plays like this one song. We… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
“He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“She waited for him to say something more. The silence held ciphers of truths that lingered between them, written in a script… — Elise Kova Copy Share Image
A true friend is not like the rain which pours and goes away, a true friend is like the air sometimes silent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing.” — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“rushing through her system drowned all other sound. Numb, she listened to the world pulse in and out around her. Then, deathly… — Adriana Noir Copy Share Image
Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers.… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Turgenev's achievement lies in how he succeeded, in spite of himself, his country, and his time, in exempting his work from public… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“There was silence on the other end. The static crackle from one hundred kilometres of telephone lines. Crows sitting on them, shivering,… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“In the silence between cultures, I found my voice—not as one or the other, but as both and neither, a bridge between… — Camellia Yang Copy Share Image
Ill just keep smiliing… but you'll never get to see whats underneath it. Because I'm silently screaming & you cant hear a… — Broken Soul Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word... Where is the Life we have lost… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
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