Logo - Feel The Words

Silent Quotes

Most Famous Silent Quotes of All Time!

We have created a collection of some of the best silent quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Silent Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

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

Quotes by William Hamilton Maxwell

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

Quotes by William Butler Yeats

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

Quotes by William Alexander

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

Quotes by Walter Murch

I gravitate towards silent characters who don't talk much.

Quotes by Vikramaditya Motwane

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

Quotes by Thornton Wilder

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

Quotes by Thomas Moore

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.

Quotes by Teller

This love is silent.

Quotes by T. S. Eliot

There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.

Quotes by Susan Vreeland

Melvilasam' broke a short, silent phase in my career.

Quotes by Suresh Gopi

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

Quotes by Steve Forbes

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

Quotes by Sammy Hagar

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

Quotes by Rosecrans Baldwin

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

Quotes by Robert Reich

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

Quotes by Rick Larsen

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

Quotes by Richard Morris

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.

Quotes by Ravi Zacharias

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

Quotes by Randall Terry

During war, the laws are silent.

Quotes by Quintus Tullius Cicero

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Quotes by Publilius Syrus

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Quotes by Plutarch

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.

Quotes by Pierre Nicole

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

Quotes by Phil Donahue

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?

Quotes by Peter Jackson

Now I'm the go-to-girl for silent films.

Quotes by Penelope Ann Miller

With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner.

Quotes by Pedro Almodovar

My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

Quotes by Pedro Martinez

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Quotes by Paul Eldridge

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

To be silent is to be passive.

Quotes by Octavia Spencer

I'm not going to run or be silent for fear of keeping a fan base.

Quotes by Natasha Rothwell

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.

Quotes by Nancy Willard

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

Quotes by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

What happened in Iraq and Syria was that the world remained silent as ISIS expanded.

Quotes by Nadia Murad

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone's silence.

Quotes by Michel Temer

I went to Catholic grade school, so we sang a lot of religious songs: 'O Holy Night,' 'Silent Night.'

Quotes by Michael McDonald

I'm not trying to represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majority. Unfortunately, I'm a bit loony.

Quotes by Maysoon Zayid

Whenever I'm driving through an area of a town, and it gets really foggy, my brain immediately starts having anxiety because of 'Silent Hill.'

Quotes by Matthew Mercer

The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.

Quotes by Matt Czuchry

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

Quotes by Mary Pickford

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

Quotes by Mark Russell

Laws are silent in time of war.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Angus and I had silent dreams about playing in a band since we were kids, always playing our guitars and listening to records.

Quotes by Malcolm Young

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Anyone who has spoken to experienced combat troops knows that they rarely brag about their exploits. Strong and silent is the preferred style.

Quotes by Linda Colley

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

Quotes by Leon Foucault

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

Quotes by Laurie R. King

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

Quotes by Kevin Brownlow

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

Quotes by Kent Beck

In a silent film, the visuals are of utmost importance.

Quotes by Karthik Subbaraj

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

When I want to get inspired, I'll put a Pixar movie on silent and listen to Nas.

Quotes by Jon Bellion

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

Quotes by John Buchan

When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.

Quotes by J. B. Pritzker

Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.

Quotes by J. B. Pritzker

All of the silent films had live music accompaniment, so it's actually a very rich period in music.

Quotes by Howard Shore

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

Quotes by Horace

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

Quotes by Holly Hunter

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

Quotes by Herta Muller

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Quotes by Hedda Hopper

Hope will never be silent.

Quotes by Harvey Milk

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

Quotes by Gloria Allred

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

A yawn is a silent shout.

Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

Quotes by George Henry Lewes

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

George Eliot

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

Quotes by George Carlin

See and keep silent.

Quotes by Francis Walsingham

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

Quotes by Frances Bean Cobain

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

Quotes by Felicia Hemans

In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent killer.

Quotes by Elizabeth Flock

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

Quotes by Edmund Waller

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Quotes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

Quotes by E. G. Marshall

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.

Quotes by David Letterman

I'd say we represent the silent majority.

Quotes by Dave Portnoy

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

Quotes by Darrell Hammond

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Dalai Lama

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

Quotes by Cornelia Otis Skinner

My father had been an avid fan of Chaplin during the silent film days, but when the talkies came along, my father lost all interest in movies.

Quotes by Claude Picasso

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

Quotes by Clara Zetkin

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

Quotes by Chen Guangcheng

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Quotes by Charles Lamb

To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, and they are staying silent when they are violating my fundamental rights.

Quotes by Carles Puigdemont

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'

Quotes by Carl Sagan

I would've been a really big silent movie star.

Quotes by Caitriona Balfe

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.

Quotes by Bruce Beresford

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.

Quotes by Brian Moore

I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.

Quotes by Bill Irwin

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

Quotes by Bill Ayers

I think our cities' deteriorating infrastructure is a silent crisis.

Quotes by Betsy Hodges

Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.

Quotes by Ben Foster

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Quotes by Azar Nafisi

The silent voter, interestingly, has always been the voter for AAP.

Quotes by Atishi

I hate a sleepy, nonresponsive, and silent audience because it fails to excite me as a performer.

Quotes by Asha Bhosle

Modeling is really silent acting.

Quotes by Arizona Muse

Guys, we are trying to share Unique Silent Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.