Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Deneuve

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Edith Stein

Those who remain silent are responsible.

Alexis de Tocqueville

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

Elizabeth I

I observe and remain silent.

Deepak Chopra

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

Abraham Lincoln

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Ally Carter

Ooh, the silent treatment.

Abraham Kuyper

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.

William Shakespeare

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

Bob Hope

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

George Crabbe

With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.

Octavia Spencer

To be silent is to be passive.

Helena Christensen

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Harvey Milk

Hope is never silent.

Gaspard Ulliel

I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.

Franz Kafka

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

That's why the Partnership is silent on this,

Frank Herbert

To determine if you're human. Be silent.

George Herbert

Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can thought be silent?

Ingrid Newkirk

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Jack London

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

Pete Seeger

I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.

John Lubbock

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.

John Keats

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...

Publilius Syrus

I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent

Margaret Atwood

We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it's not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

Serge Daney

Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.

Julie Burchill

The 'g' is silent - the only thing about her that is.

Jon Foreman

There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.