Tears are the silent language of grief.
I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.
Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don’t see him as boyfriend material. He’s just there, but you know all the same people.
When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.
To choose to be silent in any scene sometimes has more notes in my script than when you chose to speak.
I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
The tragedy of the UPA is not that it didn’t do anything, but that it is not able to take credit for what it has done. By staying silent when it should have been shouting from the rooftop and by protecting the guilty, it surrendered the governance agenda to AAP.
Usually, I’ll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue – you can do so much with gesture. I’m still waiting to do a silent film.
New-Year’s Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
Certainly there are many Congress members who have been arrested in the past on immigration issues and will continue to because we all understand that staying silent is not an option.
When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians – Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I’d go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I’d seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.
The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.
I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Kids in the Hall,’ and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don’t have those inclinations, at all.
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.
I’m becoming more squeamish. I didn’t use to be – nine years of ‘Silent Witness’ prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I’d be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.
This constant need for dominance and strength, having walls up, this kind of silent broker cowboy who needs to have something that can be redeemed before he is actually worthy of love, there is a missing piece to that strength.
We should naturally expect that the baptism of infants, if enjoined at all, would have been enjoined in the law which instituted the ordinance of Christian baptism. But this law is silent on the subject of infants.
It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.
Lyme has brought me to my knees; this disease is a silent killer and does not have a face.
It’s about the principles, it’s about the rule of law. You don’t have to stay silent when you see something that you don’t like that is inconsistent of these timeless principles.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
To be among people one loves, that’s sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
I’d say we represent the silent majority.
The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
There’s a lot of external issues that have a ripple effect on a family and a lot of internal, practical parenting challenges that families are trying to overcome every day. Children become the silent witnesses of such worry within their families.
We are living in a time in which movies such as ‘Super Size Me’ and ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ have made box-office history, and books such as ‘No Logo’ and my own, ‘The Silent Takeover,’ are bestsellers.
For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.
When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.
Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
What happened in Iraq and Syria was that the world remained silent as ISIS expanded.
When I was three, I lived in Florida, and my mom took me to see the touring production of ‘Cats.’ And I was, like, absolutely silent – which for a 3-year-old never happens – and I turned to her and said, ‘I need to do this.’ That’s when I started my performer journey.
Silence in the turmoil of the theater world made me survive 50 years without speaking on a stage, only to say ‘No’ in Mel Brooks’ film, ‘Silent Movie.’
Naga Shaurya is a silent person and doesn’t talk to anyone on the sets. But when he faces the camera, he is a different person altogether. As an actor, he is very mature.
Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.
When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
The only thing I know is the only things that I know. You can’t ask me to talk about something I have no information on. I stay silent. It’d be foolish. So when I talk about something, it’s something I at least have a little bit of familiarity with me.
I’m a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
How players react to questions that you ask can give definitive information as to the strength of their hand. Even an opponent who says nothing at all might be sending a silent signal. A mere shrug, an awkward smile, or even a frozen stare can be meaningful.
Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.
For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.
I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format – how it works, the device of the silent movie.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
That’s one of things I think I need to improve upon, communicating really well with my wife. My dad was kind of a strong silent type, and I have some of that in me, If you get me talking about hunting, fishing or faith, I can talk a while.
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It’s either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there’s always a buzzing beneath you.
Being vocal and listening for sounds when we go out – that is what makes wrestling. If people were just silent, that’s the worst thing you could hear.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.
