Johnny Depp - Quotes

 You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever. 

Tags: careful   funny   silence   talking     


Nicholas Sparks - Quotes

 We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox. 

Tags: perception   silence     
Jackie Brown - Quotes

 Ordell Robbie:
[Sits in silence for a few moments, thinking, then finally realizes who stole his money] It's Jackie Brown.
 

Tags: Silence Quotes     


Wet Hot American Summer - Quotes

 Caped Boy:
Excuse me, ladies. You may remember me as the guy who came to dinner a few weeks ago with underwear on my head. My name is Keith Stat from Millburn, New Jersey. State bird, the mosquito. And as you may have heard, I am recently a crowned class B dungeon master. So if any of you would like to play D&D today, please speak now or forever hold your peace. [he chuckles, and there is an awkward silence at the table]
Caped Boy:
Anyone? Alexa! [Alexa gives him a withering glare]
Caped Boy:
Maybe you would like to join in? We do need a druid, and you have definitely cast a level 5 charm spell on me.
Alexa:
In your dreams, douche-bag!
Caped Boy:
Douche-bags are hygienic products; I take that as a compliment. Thank you. [Keith walks off]
Alexa:
Ewww!
 

Tags: Charm Quotes   Class Quotes   Play Quotes   Silence Quotes     
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly - Quotes

 In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success 

Tags: cynicism   flattering   paris   silence   storytelling   success     
Love Actually - Quotes

 
[trying to make conversation with Aurelia, who doesn't understand a word]
Jamie:
No, right. "Silence is golden," as the Tremeloes said. Clever guys. Although I think the original version was by, uh, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Great, great, great band. [hums "Silence is Golden"]
Jamie:
Oh, shut up.
 

Tags: Conversation Quotes   Silence Quotes   Trying Quotes     
Anna and the King - Quotes

 King Mongkut:
[to Anna] When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.
 

Tags: Man Quotes   Silence Quotes   Woman Quotes     
National Treasure - Quotes

 Abigail Chase:
[Ben Gates is trying to figure out how to get the Silence Dogood letters without letting his dad know he stole the Declaration of Independence] You have the original Silence Dogood letters? Steal those too?
Ben Gates:
They're scans of the orginals, quiet please.
Abigail Chase:
Where did you get the scans?
Ben Gates:
I know the person who has the originals, now shush.
Abigail Chase:
Why do you need them?
Ben Gates:
She really can't shut her mouth, can she? [Offering her the Declaration]
Ben Gates:
Look, I will let you hold this if you promise to *shut up*, please!
 

Tags: Letters Quotes   Will Quotes   Promise Quotes   Silence Quotes   Trying Quotes     
Heavy Weights - Quotes

 Tony Perkis:
First we're going to take an hour meditation break. Then we're going to climb that 1000-foot rock face over there with our bare hands and feet. I know you can do it, I have faith in you. But for now, observe the silence of the chi.
 

Tags: Faith Quotes   Meditation Quotes   Silence Quotes     
Alexander - Quotes

 Old Ptolemy:
The truth is never simple and yet it is. The truth is we did kill him. By silence we consented... because we couldn't go on. But by Ares, what did we have to look forward to but to be discarded in the end like Cleitus? After all this time, to give away our wealth to Asian sycophants we despised? Mixing the races? Harmony? Oh, he talked of these things. I never believe in his dream. None of us did. That's the truth of his life. The dreamers exhaust us. They must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams.
 

Tags: Heir Quotes   Wealth Quotes   Silence Quotes   Truth Quotes   Us Quotes     
Corpse Bride - Quotes

 William Van Dort:
You've certainly hooked a winner this time, Victor.
Nell Van Dort:
Now, all you have to do is reel her in.
Victor Van Dort:
I'm already reeling, Mother. Shouldn't Victoria Everglot be marrying a Lord or something.
Nell Van Dort:
Oh, nonsense. We're every bit of good as the Everglots. I always knew I deserved better than a fish merchants life.
Victor Van Dort:
But I've never even spoken to her.
Nell Van Dort:
Well, at least we have that in our favor. [Mayhew coughs]
Nell Van Dort:
Mayhew! Silence that blasted coughing!
 

Tags: Silence Quotes     
Reign Over Me - Quotes

 
[Charlie is meeting Angela for the first time. Angela goes off to get a cup of coffee]
Charlie Fineman:
Are you kidding me? She's a baby.
Alan Johnson:
Listen, you're right, she's young. But, she-she's good. She's got a lot of experience with loss and grief counseling. Just...
Charlie Fineman:
She's got nice tits, that's not good.
Alan Johnson:
Since when?
Charlie Fineman:
[pause] Good point.
Alan Johnson:
Look, we'll just do the meet-and-greet, and see if you like her, and if you do, we'll just - we'll go from there.
Charlie Fineman:
Am I wrong about her tits, though?
Alan Johnson:
No, you're right. They're wonderful.
Angela Oakhurst:
So what are you guys talking about? What's so wonderful? [silence from Charlie and Alan]
 

Tags: Talking Quotes   Experience Quotes   Grief Quotes   Loss Quotes   Silence Quotes     
Henry Rollins - Quotes

 I get tired of talking when I want to be silent. 

Tags: silence     
Samuel Beckett - Quotes

 I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.

(Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.)

Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited. 

Tags: beckett   krapp   life   love   movement   play   relatipnship   silence     
Mystery Men - Quotes

 Capt. Amazing:
Oh looky here, a multi frequency radio detonator. You should be more careful when discarding incriminating evidence.
Casanova Frankenstein:
Oh, no, no, no this is quite an amusing little gizmo. It's really quite cool.
Capt. Amazing:
Yeah? W-What is it? [Puff Of Smoke Goes Off In Captain Amazing's Face]
Capt. Amazing:
[sniffs] Yuck.
Casanova Frankenstein:
It's a cholorform-deploying portable enticement snare. [Captain Amazing Nods In Confusion and both foes stare at each other in silence momentarily]
Capt. Amazing:
[sniffs] Ah, Dang! [passes out]
 

Tags: Confusion Quotes   Silence Quotes     
Corpse Bride - Quotes

 Nell Van Dort:
Oh, it's almost dawn! Where could he be?
Town Crier:
Victor Van Dort elopes with corpse! Heartbroken bride to wed wealthy newcomer!
Nell Van Dort:
Wealthy newcomer? It cannot be.
William Van Dort:
Did he say corpse?
Nell Van Dort:
Oh, don't be ridiculous. What corpse would marry our Victor? [Mayhew coughs]
Nell Van Dort:
Oh, Mayhew! Silence that blasted coughing! Mayhew, are you trying to kill us? I think he's trying to kill us!
 

Tags: Silence Quotes   Trying Quotes     
U2 - Quotes

 There is a silence that comes to a house when no one can sleep. I guess it's the price of love; I know it's not cheap. 

Tags: silence     
Thomas Merton - Quotes

 But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. 

Tags: comfort   enquiry   silence   solitude     
Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in Persuasion, for example, is partly of interest to the female sex because of the 'prize' loot he has extracted from his encounters with Bonaparte's navy. Still, as one born after Hiroshima I can testify that a small Hampshire township, however large the number of names of the fallen on its village-green war memorial, is more than a world away from any unpleasantness on the European mainland or the high or narrow seas that lie between. (I used to love the detail that Hampshire's 'New Forest' is so called because it was only planted for the hunt in the late eleventh century.) I remember watching with my father and brother through the fence of Stanstead House, the Sussex mansion of the Earl of Bessborough, one evening in the early 1960s, and seeing an immense golden meadow carpeted entirely by grazing rabbits. I'll never keep that quiet, or be that still, again.



This was around the time of countrywide protest against the introduction of a horrible laboratory-confected disease, named 'myxomatosis,' into the warrens of old England to keep down the number of nibbling rodents. Richard Adams's lapine masterpiece Watership Down is the remarkable work that it is, not merely because it evokes the world of hedgerows and chalk-downs and streams and spinneys better than anything since The Wind in the Willows, but because it is only really possible to imagine gassing and massacre and organized cruelty on this ancient and green and gently rounded landscape if it is organized and carried out against herbivores. 

Tags: 1960s   countryside   cruelty   england   europe   gassing   hampshire   hiroshima   literature   mansions   massacre   meadow   myxomatosis   napoleon   quiet   rabbits   silence   sussex   townships   women     
Mark Haddon - Quotes

 On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty. 

Tags: rain   silence     
Euripides - Quotes

 Your very silence shows you agree. 

Tags: silence     
Oscar Wilde - Quotes

 The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty. 

Tags: erskine   humor   silence   thirty   treadley     
William Faulkner - Quotes

 Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. 

Tags: fool   silence   stupidity   talking   words     
The Aviator - Quotes

 Howard Hughes:
No, wait! Honey, you can't move! You can't move, you're safe here! You're in the germ-free zone now, y'understand?
Ava Gardner:
I'll take my chances.
Howard Hughes:
No, no! Honey, wait... wait, uh... [Ava removes the string barriers from the doorway and walks into the study. She turns on the light, revealing that entire room is covered with used tissues and string barriers everywhere. Silence for a moment]
Ava Gardner:
Love what you've done with the place...
 

Tags: Love Quotes   Love Quotes   Silence Quotes     
We Were Soldiers - Quotes

 Joe Galloway:
[Narrating] We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for we were soldiers once, and young.
 

Tags: Will Quotes   Silence Quotes   Soldiers Quotes     
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear - Quotes

 Nicole Noone:
Let's just think about this for a second, shall we. I am out of your league, I'm so out of your league, that if your league exploded, I wouldn't hear about it for three days. So let us go on in a companionable silence shall we.
 

Tags: Silence Quotes   Us Quotes     
The Princess Diaries - Quotes

 Mia:
Hey Joe? Can we park a block away from school? I really don't want to cause a riot with this hearse.
Joe:
This is a non-riot hearse. And if it were a hearse there would be silence in the backseat.
 

Tags: Silence Quotes     
The Jungle Book - Quotes

 
[first lines]
Colonel Brydon:
Life is a spinning wheel, it has been said. With each spoke, a tale to be told. So keep silence along the banks, and I will tell you one of these tales; a story as enchanting as the jungle itself. It is about pride, and power, and treasure... and about fangs, and claws, and talons... but mostly, it is about love...
 

Tags: Ale Quotes   Will Quotes   Life Quotes   Silence Quotes     
The Happening - Quotes

 Nursery Owner:
This woman's talking to her daughter. She's talking to her daughter in Princeton. Isn't that where your friend went?
Elliot Moore:
Come on! [they run over to the woman]
Woman on Cell Phone:
[speaking to her daughter at Princeton] It's OK, honey, honey, it's OK. [to the fellow survivors]
Woman on Cell Phone:
She's so scared... You just stay in that room, you don't open the door for nothing. Just keep watching out the window with the tree, baby, someone will come and get you soon.
Elliot Moore:
Tell her, tell her not to go near the window with the tree, just tell her!
Woman on Cell Phone:
Baby, don't go near the window with the tree!
Elliot Moore:
Ask her if Princeton's been affected.
Woman on Cell Phone:
Honey, someone wants to know if Princeton's had any problems... she says everyone's dead outside. [they all gasp]
Woman on Cell Phone:
You just stay in your room... Honey, honey you're talking funny, what's wrong with you?
Elliot Moore:
What do you mean? Everyone's dead?
Woman on Cell Phone:
What? Stacy, you're scaring me, I don't, I don't understand what you're saying. What, baby? She's just not making any sense.
Young Woman Voice on Phone:
Calculus, I see... in calculus. Calculus. Calculus.
Woman on Cell Phone:
Stacy... Stacy... [loud noise, then silence on Stacy's end of the line]
Woman on Cell Phone:
Stacy Ann? [woman starts weeping]
Woman on Cell Phone:
Oh no no no no no Stacy, Stacy, oh no no no... Oh, Stacy!
 

Tags: Caring Quotes   Man Quotes   Talking Quotes   Will Quotes   Silence Quotes     
The Crow - Quotes

 T-Bird:
I got trouble. One of my crew got himself perished.
Top Dollar:
Yeah, and who might that be?
T-Bird:
Tin Tin, somebody stuck his blades in all his major organs in alphabetical order.
Top Dollar:
Well, gentlemen, by all means, I think we oughta have an introspective moment of silence for poor ol' Tin Tin. [sniffs drugs]
 

Tags: Poor Quotes   Self Quotes   Body Quotes   Silence Quotes     
Arrested Development - Quotes

 Michael:
[after George Sr. has been handed a jail sentence] They're going to keep Dad in jail until this whole thing gets sorted out. [silence amongst the family]
Michael:
Also, I've been told that the company's expense accounts have been frozen... [everyone gasps]
Michael:
...Interesting. I would have expected that after "They're keeping Dad in jail."
 

Tags: Silence Quotes     
Memoirs of a Geisha - Quotes

 Hatsumomo:
[entertaining at the teahouse] Sayuri. A name as sweet as she is. I'm afraid these days even the common chambermaid can call herself a geisha. So, it's nice to see such a sincere young maiko, isn't it?
Mameha:
[to Sayuri] Surely you would like to thank Hatsumomo for her gracious compliments.
Sayuri Nitta:
[serving tea] There is so much I would like to say to Hatsumomo.
Hatsumomo:
[laughing] Sometimes the smartest remark is silence
Sayuri Nitta:
What better advise to follow than your own.
 

Tags: Self Quotes   Silence Quotes   Us Quotes     
Haruki Murakami - Quotes

 I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me. 

Tags: beautiful   metaphor   silence     
Suzanne Finnamore - Quotes

 Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance. 

Tags: cheating   divorce   infidelity   marriage   seperation   silence     
The 4th Floor - Quotes

 Albert Collins:
Silence is the most beautiful noise in the world.
 

Tags: Silence Quotes     
James Joyce - Quotes

 Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. 

Tags: lyrical   silence     
Lloyd Jones - Quotes

 Under these circumstances, silence among such a large group of people is an uncomfortable thing to experience. Guilt spreads around even to those who have nothing to feel guilty about. Many held their breath. Or, as I heard later, many did what me and my mum did and closed their eyes. We closed our eyes in a bid to remove ourselves. 

Tags: guilt   silence     
Camp Nowhere - Quotes

 Gaby:
[on Dennis Van Welker] Last year, he tried to do 'Silence of the Lambs' as a musical.
 

Tags: Silence Quotes     
A Prairie Home Companion - Quotes

 Yolanda Johnson:
How about just a moment of silence?
Garrison Keillor:
Silence on the radio... I don't know how that works.
 

Tags: Silence Quotes     
Woody Allen - Quotes

 God is silent. Now if only man would shut up. 

Tags: humor   mankind   silence     
Flyleaf - Quotes

 Sometimes life seems to quiet into paralyzing silence. 

Tags: silence     
Roman Payne - Quotes

 I like the posture, but not the yoga.

I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping. 

Tags: dreams   flower   garden   love   moments   morning   opium   payne   poetry   posture   quietness   roman   silence   sleep   yoga     
Shrek - Quotes

 
[eyeing the "KEEP OUT" signs surrounding Shrek's home]
Donkey:
You, uh... you don't entertain much, do you?
Shrek:
I like my privacy.
Donkey:
Y'know, me too. That's another thing we have in common. I hate it when you've got someone in your face, you try to give someone a hint and they won't leave, and then there's that big awkward silence... [big awkward silence ensues]
Donkey:
... Can I stay with you?
 

Tags: Hate Quotes   Silence Quotes     
Millennium - Quotes

 William Garry:
Do you know what it's like to scream in silence three hundred and sixty five days of the year?
 

Tags: Silence Quotes     
Edgar Allan Poe - Quotes

 From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep river, brighter than all save the eyes of Eleonora; and, winding stealthily about in mazy courses, it passed away, at length, through a shadowy gorge, among hills still dimmer than those whence it had issued. We called it the  

Tags: eleonora   love   river   silence     
The Bronx Is Burning - Quotes

 Billy Martin:
You'll never silence Martin. I'm hyping my team up.
 

Tags: Silence Quotes     
Alison McGhee - Quotes

 You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No. 

Tags: expectations   powerful   silence     
Leonardo da Vinci - Quotes

 Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.  

Tags: authority   silence     
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie - Quotes

 Jeff:
If you think "Silence Of The Lambs" is what happens when Larry goes out to the barn, you might be a redneck.
 

Tags: Silence Quotes     
Anne Spollen - Quotes

 When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only after hours of wading inside it. The sound is soft, like flute notes rising up, like the words of glass speaking. Then there comes a point when you must shatter the blindness of its words, the blindness of its light. 

Tags: silence   water     
Wendell Berry - Quotes

 Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it is necessary, even now, to leave the regions of our conquest - the cleared fields, the towns and cities, the highways - and re-enter the woods. For only there can a man encounter the silence and the darkness of his own absence. Only in this silence and darkness can he recover the sense of the world's longevity, of its ability to thrive without him, of his inferiority to it and his dependence on it. Perhaps then, having heard that silence and seen that darkness, he will grow humble before the place and begin to take it in - to learn from it what it is. As its sounds come into his hearing, and its lights and colors come into his vision, and its odors come into his nostrils, then he may come into its presence as he never has before, and he will arrive in his place and will want to remain. His life will grow out of the ground like the other lives of the place, and take its place among them. He will be with them - neither ignorant of them, nor indifferent to them, nor against them - and so at last he will grow to be native-born. That is, he must reenter the silence and the darkness, and be born again.

(pg. 27,  

Tags: creation   darkness   humility   land   nature   rebirth   silence   woods     
Jean Arp - Quotes

 Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. 

Tags: noise   silence   technology     
Brennan Manning - Quotes

 Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others. 

Tags: beloved   faith   identity   self   silence   solitude     
Aldous Huxley - Quotes

 Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence. 

Tags: conflict   huxley   perfection   silence     
Norton Juster - Quotes

 Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully. 

Tags: alone   quiet   silence     
Edith Sitwell - Quotes

 My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. 

Tags: hobbies   music   reading   silence     
Thomas Harris - Quotes

 The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you. 

Tags: abuse   silence   testimony     
Camilla Gibb - Quotes

 Clench clench these strong teeth in this strong mouth. My mouth. Of my body. In my house. My mouth? Chapped lips swollen and bloody? Dream dreaming wide and thunder? My mouth! My God! This is me speaking. Not mouthing. Not typing and twitching. Not writing a suicide note the length of a novel that will never be finished. I hear voices now but I know they are not the voices of fathers or lovers, or mothers or angels or demons, but the sounds of my own private wars echoing the battles of women before me and near me. No wonder I do not make people comfortable. I am a mirror. I have far too many things to say. (p. 237-238) 

Tags: silence   trauma     
Kathy Acker - Quotes

 What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds? 

Tags: silence   solitude     
Charles de Gaulle - Quotes

 Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. 

Tags: power   silence   weapon   weapons     


Quotes of the Day

RECENT MEMBERS

all recent members

POPULAR MEMBERS

all popular members