Silence Quotes - Page 28

• All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Desire, Veils, Movement

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• Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

  John Larroquette

  Thinking, Boys, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Ends, Notes, Middle

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• I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

  Annie Baker

  Talking, Play, People

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• For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

  Bob Barr

  Long, Liberty, Civil Liberties

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• There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

  Wes Borland

  Funny, May, Littles

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• I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

  Billy Childish

  Cds, Play, Wire

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• When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Good Man, Censorship

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• Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

  Elliott Carter

  Order, Movement, Duos

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• The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

  Jay Griffiths

  Loss, Mind, World

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  Carla Bruni

  Solitude

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• I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Facts, Love To Read

  "Giancarlo Esposito On ‘Revolution,’ His Emmy Nomination And ‘Breaking Bad" By Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

  John Clare

  Song, Sweet, Nature

  John Clare (1821). “The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems”, p.176

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• He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun.

  Jethro Tull

  Fun, Fall, Angel

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• Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Writing, Mind

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• Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

  David Bowie

  Running, People, Together

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• Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

  Billy Joel

  Adages, Code, Following

  Song: Code Of Silence, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Fall, Loss

  Appendices to "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien,

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• To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

  Nicole Krauss

  Sleep, Moon, Night

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• Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Wall, House, Firsts

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• I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Sound, Quiet

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• The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

  Karel Capek

  Sports, Honesty, Gentleman

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• When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

  Steve Kazee

  Thinking, Virginia, Play

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• On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Rare Occasion, Gym, Occasions

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• The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

  William Arthur Ward

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Ideas

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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