- Refreshment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silence Quotes
On the quiet that says more than words do.
One quote turns the volume down almost literally, finding something good and even funny in silence once you stop shouting over it. If quiet reminds you more of solitude than peace, our Alone quotes may fit closer.
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- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
- Noise
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
- Lips
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- Nov 07, 2020
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
- Crowd
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace or to welcome it except as an occasion for expressing openly a shame which many Americans feel, day after day, helplessly and in silence.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition which is profoundly influenced by our social and cultural environments. Depression is a global crisis not only because it is common and universal, but because the vast majority of affected people suffer in silence or receive inappropriate care.
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