Saying Nothing Quotes by Thomas de Quincey

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• The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
• The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words… — Alan Alda
• Why waste a sentence saying nothing? — Seth Godin
• I ain't affraid to let it out, i'm not affraid to take that fall, but i found beyond all doubt, you say… — Brandon Boyd
• I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began… — Thomas de Quincey
• The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it… — Cleanth Brooks
• The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying… — Karen Joy Fowler
• There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed, — Soledad O'Brien
• It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream,… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
• We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. — Jenny Han
• Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who… — Steven Morrissey
• Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood.… — Allen Tate

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