African Proverb Quotes

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Silence is also conversation.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.

Often a silent face has voice and words.

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.