All Quotes

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
‐‐ John Irving

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

Sign language was a great experience. I have a deaf aunt that I am able to communicate with because of that class.
‐‐ Richard Sherman

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That's one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that's unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise.
‐‐ Guy Gavriel Kay

Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.
‐‐ Preet Bharara

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.
‐‐ Fritz Kreisler

Sigur Ros make beautiful music. Bloc Party are fantastic and exciting and innovative.
‐‐ Tiesto

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
‐‐ Myrtle Reed

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

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
‐‐ Plutarch

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
‐‐ Don DeLillo

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
‐‐ Gary Shteyngart

Silence is a source of great strength.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.
‐‐ Craig Bruce

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
‐‐ Confucius

Silence is also conversation.
‐‐ Ramana Maharshi

Silence is an ornament for women.
‐‐ Sophocles

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
‐‐ Che Guevara

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Silence is best.
‐‐ John Hewson

Silence is better than unmeaning words.
‐‐ Pythagoras

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
‐‐ Michelle Malkin

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
‐‐ Ramana Maharshi

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

Silence is more eloquent than words.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Silence is more musical than any song.
‐‐ Christina Rossetti

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
‐‐ Bob Monkhouse

Silence is not what democracy needs. Right now we have an election where, even the supporters of Hillary Clinton, the majority don't support Hillary; they just oppose Donald Trump. And the majority of Donald Trump supporters don't support him; they just oppose Hillary.
‐‐ Jill Stein

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
‐‐ Josh Billings

Silence is safer than speech.
‐‐ Epictetus

Silence is so accurate.
‐‐ Mark Rothko

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
‐‐ Charles Buxton

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Silence is the mother of truth.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.
‐‐ Arvo Part

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

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

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

Silence is the unbearable repartee.
‐‐ Alexander Theroux

Silence is the virtue of fools.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Silence is the wit of fools.
‐‐ Anatole France

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
‐‐ Euripides