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...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.
It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.
God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.
You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind
The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.
One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
I lived around the man who was the model for Buffalo Bill in the movie 'Silence of the Lambs.'
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.
I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.
Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.
The opening of 'There Will Be Blood' with that score and then deafening silence was memorable.
And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.
At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.
The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.
to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance
Sometimes, the players who are not spoken about a lot, they grow and get better - with silence.
Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.
Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.
What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.
Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.