#silence

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#i #like #listening #misty #morn

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#noise #silence #sleeps #who

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#been #bunch #cnn #dumb #exception

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. ↗

— Jane Austen

#politics #silence #step

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

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

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#even #flattering #poet #response #silence

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#every #idle #must #silence #word

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him? ↗

— Brigham Young

#better way #entertain #golden #him #listen