#silence

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#after #being #comedy #everyone #family

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#distracting #me #more #silence #solitude

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#began #emptiness #i #inhabiting #nothingness

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. ↗

— Wisława Szymborska

#silence #words

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#deep #silence #vengeance

She was extending a hand I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#silence #communication

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#first #free #ideas #men #minds

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

#got #silences #speak #you

It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#mutism #quiet #silence #life

Silence is more eloquent than words. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#more #silence #than #words