George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can’t hear him talk.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

I like talking. I like acting.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Silence is the mother of truth.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

Silence is safer than speech.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

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

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Silence is a source of great strength.