Top 365 Silent Quotes

In a silent film, the visuals are of utmost importance.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it’s silent.

I get even more nervous singing when everyone’s fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there’s people there listening to that, and if they’re moved by it, then I’m moved as well.

I love some films with very silent characters, people who don’t speak, but I wouldn’t be able to do that.

What’s interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

Hope will never be silent.

I’m sad to see celluloid go, there’s no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you’d see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it’s digital.

The Greens have every right to run, that’s what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that’s how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little – silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can’t see, and it’s not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life in some way in order for it to be on your radar.

Diabetes is a silent killer and awareness about the same is certainly lacking, hence I felt there was a need for me to get involved and assist in creating the required awareness.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

If you cannot commit several hours per week to maintain the liberty that others afforded you, then you, by your inaction and silent voice, abet those who seek to destroy it.

Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.

If I score a goal in training, it feels great. But in a stadium, especially Anfield, or even when you score away and the fans are silent, it’s just amazing. You are just in the moment. There are times when I’ve scored, and I can’t even remember what happened. It’s so good.

People ask me, ‘What do you do?’ And I tell them I’m a writer, but always with the silent reservation, ‘I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.’

So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

Loving people does not require you to stay silent when you see something that merits being called out.

I think being still and being silent and finding your own space is so important in this hectic world.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

I have done ‘Gutar-Gu,’ which was a silent comedy show.

If the room falls silent for a moment, all I hear is white noise.

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.

Personally, for my character, I started as the silent but deadly type.

I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

In ‘Talvar’, my character loses his daughter and it was quite an intense role. I had to concentrate and I would request all the unit members to stay silent before the take.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

As my marriage was slowly dissolving into silent meals and awkward nights of avoiding conversation, I started pondering an unmarried future and wondered if I’d ever be able to hack being single again.

Donald Trump is actually the voice of the silent majority, and I think he’s awoken that silent majority. People are very angry, and the people who are the most angry are actually the legal immigrants who see their jobs fleeing.

The core plot of ‘Mercury’ is so gripping that when I thought of making it as a silent film, it only made it more interesting. Once I finished writing the first draft, making a silent film that’s both thrilling and engaging seemed possible. When the film team read the final script, they felt the same.

The main thing is that the ‘C’ is silent, so it kind of starts with a ‘Z.’ Z-O-O-K-RIE. It’s Ukrainian, on my dad’s side.

The majority of the time… the people that are critiquing and bashing me, they’re making me more relevant, I would think. If you didn’t want me around, then just don’t talk about me, and try and make it silent out there.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

Born in the silent era, with the first ceremony hosted by Douglas Fairbanks at the Roosevelt Hotel, the Oscars are a tradition in a business that doesn’t have much of it, and the biggest spectacle in a business that’s often nothing but.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

To me, the zombies have always just been zombies. They’ve always been a cigar. When I first made ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ it got analyzed and overanalyzed way out of proportion. The zombies were written about as if they represented Nixon’s Silent Majority or whatever. But I never thought about it that way.

I like watching films that can play in any language because they’re essentially silent.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

I don’t speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

My spirit tells me I cannot be silent.

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

When it’s silent or when that energy of the audience isn’t there, you feel the bumps a little more. You feel yourself losing breath a little quicker.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

I’m one of those guys, you be silent and get the guys on your side of the ball working.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

We can’t gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we’ve already done that – with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

You gotta trust your artist. I love writing pages without dialogue, which seems weird, I guess. But few things are as powerful in comics as a really strong silent page.