Quotes 61 till 80 of 119.
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Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.
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She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over the harbor and city
on silent haunches, and then moves on.Fog (1916) -
The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15-03-1783 -
The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
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The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
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