A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.

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.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

Great souls suffer in silence.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.