Definitions Quote by Anonymous

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

— Paul Bourget

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

— Hannah Arendt

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

— MC Yogi

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

— Antonio Porchia

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

— Edmund Burke

I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object…

— Alfred Korzybski

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

— William Saroyan

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

— David James Duncan

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

— Don DeLillo

Sounds are vibrations and the more you can put into that vibration, the more you can get out, action and reaction, that's the thing…

— George Harrison

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

— Mark Strand