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There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.
I hate a sleepy, nonresponsive, and silent audience because it fails to excite me as a performer.
Just like my mom, when things get bad, I get quiet. The worse they get, the more silent I become.
A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.
We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.
That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.
But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.
It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
All of the silent films had live music accompaniment, so it's actually a very rich period in music.
In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.
Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
Every man - at least once in his lifetime - has visited the silent and dark street of disappointment.
I went to Catholic grade school, so we sang a lot of religious songs: 'O Holy Night,' 'Silent Night.'
I think being still and being silent and finding your own space is so important in this hectic world.
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
Pirlo's a leader - a silent leader, but one who knows how to carry his team through difficult moments.
People influence each other, so one screening will be filled with laughs while another is dead silent.
Loving people does not require you to stay silent when you see something that merits being called out.
If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
To choose to be silent in any scene sometimes has more notes in my script than when you chose to speak.
I don't want to be a dissident. But in the same time, I don't want to go back home and be silent again.
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.
I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.
Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie
I work every day. I write every day. I walk around in silent conversation with my latest unfinished songs.
I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.
Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]
[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.
Some of my favorites are the classics like 'What They Do,' 'Proceed,' 'You Got Me,' and 'Silent Treatment.'
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.