Answers Quote by Yann Martel

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

— Yann Martel

“So I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible…

— Samuel Beckett

The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

— Winston Churchill

He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.

— Sarah MacLean

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is…

— Tennessee Williams

“All writing is a sin against speechlessness,’ Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.”

— Tim Parks

The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.

— Michelle Dean

The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

— Volkmar Sigusch

“In the last fifteen minutes, she’d knocked him flat on his back, reduced him to speechlessness, and for the first time in his life,…

— Angel Payne

Speechlessness can speak in such volumes.

— Aly Johnson

I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and…

— Yann Martel

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

— Merzbow