Quotes About Uncomfortable Silence

#1. Don't you hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

Quentin Tarantino

#2. It wasn't the same as when other men called me beautiful. With them, it meant I'd be donning knee pads. With Frank, it meant uncomfortable silence. And the last thing I wanted was for Frank to be uncomfortable or silent.

Nicole Castle

#3. In my personal life, I will do whatever it takes to make a situation comfortable if I sense - if I'm talking to someone [and] I sense there's a silence, I'll try to fill that gap. It makes me very anxious when things get uncomfortable.

Nathan Fielder

#4. Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

M.I.A.

#5. How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?

Ted Dekker

#6. If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

Mark Hoppus

#7. He was as inexpressive as he is to-day, and yet oddly obtrusive: one of those uncomfortable presences whose silence is an interruption.

Edith Wharton

#8. He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal faces.'
There was an uncomfortable silence.
'That sounds ... extreme,' Jason ventured.

Rick Riordan

#9. There's an uncomfortable silence, crackling with tension, unsaid words and vehement intensity.

Pamela Ann

#10. Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

Anton Yelchin

#11. Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

Alan Watts

#12. There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.

George Watsky

#13. I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Benjamin Bratt

#14. It would be deplorable if the special interests had the power to silence those voices in the media that they find uncomfortable.

Stieg Larsson

#15. The vicious cycle starts: if you fail at something, you think it is your fault. Therefore you think you can't do that task. As a result, next time you have to do the task, you believe you can't, so you don't even try. The result is that you can't, just as you thought.

Donald A. Norman

#16. When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.

Barry Ritholtz

#17. ROSE: The rumor is that he's Voldemort's son, Albus. A horrible, uncomfortable silence. It's probably rubbish. I mean . . . look, you've got a nose.

Jack Thorne

#18. The grace of silence-enduring hard times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

Yuri Kochiyama

#20. The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

David J. Lieberman

#21. The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted
the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.

Stephen King

#22. I suck," I said, after several minutes of uncomfortable silence into our drive.
"Is that some kind of vampire joke?" Trey
asked.

Richelle Mead

#23. The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

Gloria Steinem