100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?
~ Peter Jackson
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
~ William Butler Yeats
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
~ Honoré De Balzac
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
~ Sandra Day O'connor
We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.
~ Aravind Adiga
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
~ Plutarch
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
~ Pat Nixon
Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.
~ Anna Maria Chavez
