Great Silent Majority Quotes

#1. Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

Richard M. Nixon

#2. The great silent majority.

Richard M. Nixon

#3. I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.

Richard Feynman

#4. Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

Susan Hill

#5. Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.

Edmund Burke

#6. The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

Eric Topol

#7. If my shirt's off all the time on national TV, with 20 million people watching, I want to look my best.

Jesse Metcalfe

#8. I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

Joe Mantegna

#9. Before I had satellite radio installed in my car, I thought I would lose my mind listening to commercials and having limited choices on the dial. Your car is your home in L.A., so you've got to have some good stuff to listen to.

Amy Landecker

#10. He cries behind his wall, I think, and no one knows, not even he. And no one will ever know, and in the end he'll always be alone in smiling pain.

George R R Martin

#11. Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

Alan W. Watts

#12. First causes are outside the realm of science.

Claude Bernard

#13. And all this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of wireless, would be of no more service to man than as an escape from himself and his true aims, and a means of surrounding himself with an ever closer mesh of distractions and useless activities.

Hermann Hesse

#14. Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

Mason Cooley