The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
Her silence was the blank space between the words.
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
Often a silent face has voice and words.
A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.
A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.
...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.
Art is really whispering, not shouting.
Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.
A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.
Language cannot say everything, fortunately.
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!
So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.
He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.
I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.
Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.
