“ If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet... maybe we could understand something. ”
- Federico Fellini- Copy
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“ Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers. ”
- A.A. Milne- Copy
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“ Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. ”
- Don Delillo- Copy
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“ Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
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“ All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever. ”
- Ethel Lynn Beers- Copy
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“ With Crosby, Stills, and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young... we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to. ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
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“ America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush'' just once. ”
- Mrs Patrick Campbell- Copy
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“ Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ”
- Margaret Lee Runbeck- Copy
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“ I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
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“ The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school. ”
- Herman Hesse- Copy
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“ I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ”
- James Cameron- Copy
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“ A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air. ”
- Eric Sloane- Copy
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