As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live. (Quote by - Shelley Winters)

A moment of silence is not inherently religious. (Quote by - Sandra Day O'Connor)

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. (Quote by - Charles Simmons)

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. (Quote by - Jane Austen)

Nothing is more useful than silence. (Quote by - Menander)

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! (Quote by - Yevgeny Yevtushenko)

Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. - The Divine Comedy (Quote by - Dante Alighieri)

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. (Quote by - Zane Grey)

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain. (Quote by - Madison Julius Cawein)

Oppression can only survive through silence (Quote by - Carmen De Monteflores)

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. (Quote by - Philip Pullman)

Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. (Quote by - George Herbert)

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing. (Quote by - James Broughton)

A story is told as much by silence as by speech. (Quote by - Susan Griffin)

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. (Quote by - Jonathan Franzen)

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)

Silence is man's chief learning. (Quote by - Palladas)

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Silence is more eloquent than words. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. (Quote by - Marcel Marceau)

He has the gift of quiet. (Quote by - John Le Carre)

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. (Quote by - Wangari Maathai)