Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

William Shatner

There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To hear, one must be silent.

Robert Evans

It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.

William Hamilton Maxwell

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

Jon Foreman

There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.

Julie Burchill

The 'g' is silent - the only thing about her that is.

Octavia Spencer

To be silent is to be passive.

Jim Caviezel

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

Sarah Vaughan

It puts us in a passive place sometimes, but it can also put (women) in a powerful place.

Mike Marchand

I wanted people to be more than just passive consumers. I wanted them to be part of it.

Rob Hummel

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

Dmitry Oleynikov

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

Sonia Sotomayor

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

John Pilger

Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

Herman Melville

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.