Silent Quotes - Page 28

• A film, since it is primarily a visual medium, should really be like a silent film. You should be able to watch something and understand what was going on and use voice when you need to communicate something you can't necessarily communicate visually. The book is the opposite. The book is an inner monologue which is beautiful.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Book, Silent Films

  "Director Tom Ford Interview A SINGLE MAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2009.

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• Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Men, Enemy

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Believe, Silence, Guests

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• He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.

  Cato the Elder

  Silence, Know How, Knows

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• Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

  Edward Young

  Ocean, Thoughtful, Silence

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.82

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• As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.

  James Allen

  Nature, Ocean, Men

  James Allen (2009). “The Way of Peace”, p.60, The Floating Press

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• Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

  Thomas Hardy

  Women, Believe, Listening

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• As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the hearts of people which the storm of sin and sorrow can never disturb. To reach this silence and to live consciously in it is peace.

  James Allen

  Ocean, Heart, People

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• After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Typewriters, Talking

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of the corals and the majesty of the forests. We are in it together, on this blue spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Beautiful, Country, Good Life

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• The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

  Charles Fillmore

  Life, Art, Cells

  Charles Fillmore (2012). “Metaphysical Bible Dictionary”, p.895, Simon and Schuster

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• Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

  Thomas Hughes

  Fun, Faces, Quaint

  Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.311, The Floating Press

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• Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?

  Carol Shields

  Adventure, Men, Weight

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• What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

  John Bright

  Book, Men, Past

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• Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.

  Thomas Campbell

  Scripture, Speak

  "The Good and Bad of the Vatican’s New LGBT Statement" by Christian Piatt, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2014.

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• In an endless silence even screams sound silent.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Silence, Sound, Scream

  "The Creator" by Dejan Stojanovic, Tvoritelj, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "Scream," (p. 34), 2000.

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• Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind of imprisonment we can inflict on fellow humans, and if you are forced to keep silent about some dark secret, you live in solitary confinement. Without the bridge of communication connecting you to other human beings, you can’t share your burdens, can’t receive comfort, can’t confirm that you still belong. Silence is the abyss that separates you from hope.

  Martha Beck

  Communication, Dark, Bridges

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• I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.

  N.J. Berrill

  Spring, Book, Silent Spring

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• I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

  Al Lewis

  Needs, Radio, Satisfaction

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• He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now.'

  Anthony Powell

  Delicate Life, Vintage, Mind

  Anthony Powell (2010). “A Question of Upbringing: Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.188, University of Chicago Press

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• And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Death, Night, Thinking

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.561, Vintage

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• In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.

  Bruce Beresford

  Cutting, Cameras, Down And

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• Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

  William Ellery Channing

  Believe, Sacrifice, Greatness

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.8

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• Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

  John Gay

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

  Fables (Series 1), Fable 27

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• The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Spirit, Worship

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1164, Delphi Classics

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