To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are… — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
Stop all physical activity and sit naturally at ease. Remain silent and let sound be like an echo. Do not think about… — Tilopa Copy Share Image
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people.… — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“...if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away... — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost.… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals,… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Most of my friends that I know now [were sexually assaulted] stayed silent. And I see that still happening today. A lot… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore,… — Orlando Gibbons Copy Share Image
Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
