Quotes of Silent - somelinesforyou

“ Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. ”

- Simonides

“ He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak. ”

- Ausonius

“ Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone. ”

- Gertrude Stein

“ Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ”

- George Washington

“ Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Whether or not God is dead, it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long. ”

- Elias Canetti

“ Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying. ”

- Walter Murch

“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ”

- Barbara Tuchman

“ Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. ”

- Robert Browning

“ Be silent, or say something better than silence. ”

- Pythagoras

“ This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. ”

- Bible

“ The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. ”

- Wole Soyinka

“ It is a luxury to be understood. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ My greatest weapon is mute prayer. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless. ”

- Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker

“ All history... is an inarticulate Bible. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time. - All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing. ”

- Bruce Paltrow

“ Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them. ”

- Dennis Quaid

“ I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer. ”

- Lee Ryan

“ I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life. ”

- Jet Li

“ In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid. ”

- Lincoln Chafee
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