I don’t listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right. – Francisco Costa
As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction. – Patton Oswalt
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. – F. H. Bradley
With a live audience, it’s very clear when you’ve pushed it too far to the edge – because you fall off that edge and hit bottom with a thud. Nothing abstract about that. You know you went too far when you hear that groan or worse – that silence instead of the big laugh you were expecting following your hilariously edgy joke. – Michael Patrick King
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence. – Elie Wiesel
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. – George Eliot
I work late at night. I’m awake and nobody bothers me. It’s quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence. – Diana Gabaldon
It’s a very strange silence that I’m living in right now. It’s a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don’t live in on this earth. – Gary Busey
To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can’t imagine what that’s like. – Nicole Krauss
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. – Edgar Allan Poe
I came to love silence, because it’s so rare, and it’s now my favorite aural condition. – Mike Nichols
Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence. – Max von Sydow
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. – Elie Wiesel
We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time. – Daniel Barenboim
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don’t want our blunders in history to get repeated. – Gloria Estefan
I know you are going to be embarrassed. We’re all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment… silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know – whoever – our friends, our family. – Cybill Shepherd
She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky’s starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her. – Michael Ende
People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues. – Fionnula Flanagan
Silence, exile, cunning and so on… it’s my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. – Don DeLillo
I don’t listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words. – Mohsin Hamid
