Using Silence Quotes

#1. When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.

Franklyn Ajaye

#2. We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.

Amitabh Bachchan

#3. I write in complete silence using only two fingers so I can't type faster than I edit at the same time, saving me from having to go back. Although it does create a lot of capitalization issues. And punctuation problems. I didn't say it was a good routine.

Dan Alatorre

#4. Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

Sharon Salzberg

#5. The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

Herb Elliott

#6. The South did not bustle and plow and struggle against the snow; it slept beneath it, the silence broken only by the chatter of hungry birds and the exuberant shouts of children using trash can lids as makeshift sleds.

Lauren Gilley

#7. 150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

Jim Carrey

#8. When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

Mort Sahl

#9. I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

Herta Muller

#10. If we truly love other people, they will see it. That love is infectious.

Reese Roper

#11. To pass beyond communication was to pass beyond salvation; he

Stephen King

#12. we only shout when we neglect what silence can do

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. The story of grace is the Gospel of not just forgiveness, but also of redemption. God uses the weak, the ones who have failed and the ones who had run out of second chances long ago.

Kristen McNulty

#14. I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the current state of being than almost anyone, Louis Brandeis, and yet nobody is talking about Louis Brandeis.

Dahlia Lithwick

#15. It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church.

Andrew Cuomo

#16. The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#17. If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.

Alexander Hamilton

#18. I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit.

Marge Schott

#19. On day after class he asked me to wait behind.

Steve Toltz

#20. I was like so many others passion-ately involved in trying to bring those truths to the world's attention. We did our very best to peacefully do that. The city, state, and federal governments did their very best to quell our efforts. They were used to using heavy-handed tactics to silence us.

Leonard Peltier

#21. This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment.
All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it.
It doesn't know where to find it.

Adyashanti

#22. Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs.

Richard Bentall

#23. When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.

Christina Baldwin

#24. What do I have to do to convince you that I'm only using Dabria for one reason, one only reason: Destroy Hank, bit by bit if is necessary,and make him pay for all the things he has done to harm the girl I love?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#25. It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.

Rosie O'Donnell

#26. Maira Kalman says, Avoiding work is the way to focus my mind.

Austin Kleon

#27. What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

Alcuin