#silent

See and keep silent. ↗

— Francis Walsingham

#see #silent

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener. ↗

— William Hamilton Maxwell

#attentive #became #i #i am #listener

The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#doctor #flight #getting #got #hours

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again. ↗

— Richard Morris

#bursting #falling #into #nothing #seconds

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#gift #i #i think #like #mouth

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim. ↗

— Jane Powell

#attractive #being #being strong #ditch #idea

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. ↗

— Pythagoras

#deal #few #great #great deal #hazard

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight. ↗

— Bess Truman

#hat #her #husband #place #public

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#injustices #longer #silent #suffer #them