#silence

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#fast #horror #horror movies #i #i tried

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. ↗

— George Steiner

#language #larger #meaningfully #much #only

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#denial #either #necessarily #silence #though

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#avoid #injury #more #noble #overcome

I shall assume that your silence gives consent. ↗

— Plato

#consent #gives #i #shall #silence

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#confession #grave #keeps #own #punishment

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. ↗

— Robert M. La Follette

#before #cowardly #denounce #divine #ended

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. ↗

— Cherrie Moraga

#dead #deep #does #expressive #hearts

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#entrust #i #know #like #mother

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#believe #counts #kind #only #silence