#silence

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say. ↗

— Theresa May

#experience #heard #i #interesting #politician

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. ↗

— Judy Garland

#few #i #just #love #man

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contemporary #important #important matters #indicated #intellectual

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#arrests #audience #dragon #first #first time

I crave a cone of silence every once in while. ↗

— Laura Linney

#crave #every #i #once #silence

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence. ↗

— Eric Liu

#advocacy #anchor #babies #civic #comes

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#another #darkness #distant #each #life

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#fear #general #know #liberated #need

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#censor #citadel #contrary #convinced #hold