Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

You don't have to explain something you never said.

Jane Austen

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Ben Lee

In the silence, hear what can't be heard.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Don Lemon

There's a degree of deception in silence.

Anna Quindlen

In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.

T. S. Eliot

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

Susan Sontag

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Rajneesh

Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.

William Shakespeare

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

Mick Jagger

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

Marla Miller

I'm speechless - it's better than we had hoped.

Gene Fowler

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Wendell Berry

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

Joseph Addison

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

James Russell Lowell

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Jim Tressel

You've heard our formula many times. You ... need superior special units, relentless defense, mistake-free and opportunistic offense.

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Alan Greenspan

While these forms of protection have often been imposed under the label of promoting so-called 'fair trade,' oftentimes they are just simple guises for inhibiting competition.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Jacques Rogge

We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.