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“The pauses, the silences. That demonstrates and illustrates the most important thing that makes this instrument what it is. If you're not making use of the staccato facility you're not making use of the instrument. … You might as well be playing the Highland pipes, or a flute, for that matter.”
Brian McNamara
“Beware the quiet man, for he who does not speak, is always thinking.”
Enrique Vega
“Any time there's silence like this in a case, the parties have got to be talking. Cases don't just languish unless there's something else going on.”
Anne Bremner
“When Silence Speaks One learns to appreciate the beauty of life When one sees beauty in all the simplest things he comes across with every single day… A child's laughter A butterfly fluttering by A sun setting or a flower, just slowly blooming with all its grandeur and inner beauty With which its strength is its silence In the midst of the greens.”
Maichee Summer
“When people speak to you about others, listen carefully, for this is how they will speak about you to others.”
“Silence is the language of the wise only the wise can understand.”
john b. bejo
“Silence forces us to listen to things which could not be contained in words. It breaks eardrums and pierces even the stone-cold and confused hearts.”
“There's as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.”
Temitope Ibrahim
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with prayer. When opinions become inadequate, I shall be content with silence...”
john p. schiller
“Do not silence your voice just because the person next to you is speaking louder.”
Gracie Berry