Being cool Quote by Nikhil Saluja

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation…

— Sydney Smith

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from…

— François Mauriac

“He was as inexpressive as he is to-day, and yet oddly obtrusive: one of those uncomfortable presences whose silence is an interruption.”

— Edith Wharton

One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking,…

— Glen Duncan

“Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned. Eventually, he was down to uttering just five…

— Michael Finkel

Silence is one great art of conversation.

— William Hazlitt

“I was glad he didn’t try to come up with something encouraging to say. Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of…

— Mia Sheridan

Silence is also conversation.

— Ramana Maharshi

As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the…

— Renita J. Weems

“He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.”

— Charles R. Cross

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero