I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford and you cannot be any more accurate than that so that helped a lot.

I was silent as a child and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth now but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record and so desperate to keep their power.

There are two ways of attaining an important end force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent thoughtful schoolchildren.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed dumb and silent when all else sings together in unison?

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning you're dead.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

Wise men when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet give themselves the benefit of the doubt and remain silent.

Those who condemn gay marriage yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce are in my view missing the real issue.

This love is silent.

We have treated our most serious adversaries such as Iran and North Korea in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing we have weakened not strengthened our bargaining position and our leadership.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Although your knowledge is weak and small you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

Hope will never be silent.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books history is silent literature dumb science crippled thought and speculation at a standstill.

It is better wither to be silent or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.