Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

A great artist is never poor.

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

You know you are truly alive when you're living among lions.

Coffee according to the women of Denmark is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb draperies of morning mist her mirage.

Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

The cure for anything is salt water ? sweat, tears, or the sea.

The cure for anything is salt water sweat, tears, or the sea.

Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

Music is the silence between the notes.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

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.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

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.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

I love silence.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.