#silence

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#being #big #big mouth #bumps #child

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#important #know #life #should #shut

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. ↗

— George Eliot

#coarse #effect #faces #funeral #grating

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #books #distracted #dodging #elevation

I love being able to see an un-written future. ↗

— Michael Jones

#michael-jones #poems #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#been #charges #discussing #former #motives

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#give #give me #just #just one #little

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#despite #every #fault #had #i

I refuse to be silenced. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#refuse #silenced

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. ↗

— Zane Grey

#everyone #i #i can #night #retired