#silence

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#got #silences #speak #you

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#could #efforts #i #if i could #known

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#his #lives #man #more #more power

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#curses #deeper #his #man #silence

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#same #silence #tact #thing

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#constituting #everywhere #formerly #great #great silence

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. ↗

— Aime Cesaire

#great #great silence #knowledge #poetic #scientific

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights. ↗

— Brittany Daniel

#lambs #like #meets #nights #silence

Silence is the wit of fools. ↗

— Anatole France

#silence #wit

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. ↗

— Mark Stevens

#best #paintings #prompts #random #reflection