#silence

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#conversation #great #silence

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#funny #silence #talking #funny

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#makes #men #protest #should #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

We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#death #life #silence #thought #death

Never be bullied into silence. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#into #never #silence