Silent Quotes
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Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent
William Gilmore Simms
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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 ...
Joseph Roux
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir
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`Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter`d and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
Joaquin Miller
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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.
Henry Anatole Grunwald
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Silent gratitude isn`t much use to anyone.
Gladys Browyn Stern
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As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent.
Dr. Tony Giles
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The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing
David Viscott
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O`Connor
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent
Victor Hugo
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
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Tears are the silent language of grief
Voltaire
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G.K. Chesterton
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Use what talent you possess - the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
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As far as I`m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein
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Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
Hedda Hopper
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It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking sti...
Adolphe Menjou
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It is very important that women of this country be made aware of the dangers of osteoporosis in the sense that it is a silent and invisible disease with no symptoms whatsoever.
Rita Moreno
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Thirty-five years of silent cinema is gone, no one looks at it anymore. This will happen to the rest of cinema. Cinema is dead
Peter Greenaway
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It`s difficult, it`s a bit like acting in a silent movie. That`s what Dustin Hoffman said to me, anyway. We did the scenes with him in the first two weeks, and as he was leaving he said `well now you`re making a silent film Ben, good luck!`. On making Per...
Ben Whishaw
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It`s difficult, it`s a bit like acting in a silent movie. That`s what Dustin Hoffman said to me, anyway. We did the scenes with him in the first two weeks, and as he was leaving he said `well now you`re making a silent film Ben, good luck!`. On making Per...
Ben Whishaw
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The Jay character is kind of based on who Jason was when he was about 14 years old. In the movies he`s a bit more well spoken than he was at that age. Silent Bob - there is no affiliation to myself. I needed a guy to stand next to Jay and not say much, be...
Kevin Smith
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[on the hoopla over homosexual slurs in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"] "Gay or straight has never been a big issue with me. Sex is sex, as far as I`m concerned. Some cats dig on the opposite gender, and some cats dig on their own. Sexual identity will ...
Kevin Smith
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I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.
Lillian Gish
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You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.
Alex Okosi
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You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn`t lose a man. They all made the switch. That`s where th...
Ernst Lubitsch
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With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner.
Pedro Almodovar
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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
Alberto Lozano
