Brain Quote by Douglas Adams

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“His silence wasn’t empty—it hummed with something unspoken, something that brushed against my soul like a soft current, altering the very rhythm of my…

— Alma Brooke

“when things weren’t going well he carried on long muttered conversations with himself, but when he was particularly pleased about something he was inclined…

— James Herriot

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so…

— Nalini Singh

I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he…

— Joseph Conrad

“Humming is the sign of the truly asocial man, for no other sound is at once so soothing and pleasant to its maker and…

— Howard McCord

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

— Gaston Bachelard

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

— Gaston Bachelard

“And then again, maybe it was some weird noise in my brother’s head, some little digital murmur he never told anyone about. I’ve heard…

— Adam Rapp

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“But what I heard was a low insistent murmur, with pauses for reply in which no reply was made. It had a hypnotic quality…

— L.P. Hartley