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“To me, Twitter often feels like shouting things into a two-way mirror that I know has people behind it, maybe even people I know, and they are definitely listening, but mostly remain perfectly silent.”

People Knows Way Feels Two Behinds Listening Mirrors Silent Two Ways Shouting

Author:Mira Gonzalez

“I'm intrigued that the same letters from the alphabet are used in the word silent and in the word listen. Perhaps it's evidence that the most important part of listening involves remaining silent.”

Important Used Listening Evidence Letters Silent Intrigued Alphabet Remaining Silent

Author:Robert Herjavec

“The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and experience. Within this silence, a daughter's authentic voice can also fall silent. This is the silence of perfection. This silence of perfection prevents mothers from listening and learning from their daughters.”

Way Mother Fall Voice Silence Listening Daughter Perfection Silent Tension Peculiar Right Way Mother Daughter Mother Daughter Relationship

Author:Elizabeth Debold

“Listening begins with being silent.”

Listening Silent

Author:Joachim-Ernst Berendt

“Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.”

Men Believe Women Listening Silent Silent Man

Author:Thomas Hardy

“The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.”

Thinking Men Dangerous Listening Silent Cake Wedding Wedding Cake Silent Man

Author:Marcel Achard

“When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything, and there's a maxim about film being a visual medium, and so you need to make, in a sense, a silent movie and layer on dialogue.”

Film Reading Listening Silent Dialogue Filmmaking

Author:Tom Ford

“I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

People Littles Turns Hours Inspiring Party Acting Listening Silent Dull Idols

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.”

Men World May Light Sound Silence Music This World Listening Solitude Quiet Essentials Silent Hearing Noise Agency Single Being Single

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”

People Politics Speak Silence Power Listening Thousand Ten Empathy Silent Noise Live Life Lobbyists Lobbying

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.”

Feels Night Felt Voice Darkness Minutes Listening Ears Silent

Book:DUBLINERS (Modern Classics Series): The Sisters, An Encounter, Araby, Eveline, After the Race, Two Gallants, The Boarding House, A Little Cloud, Counterparts, Clay, A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, Mother, Grace & The Dead

Source: DUBLINERS (Modern Classics Series): The Sisters, An Encounter, Araby, Eveline, After the Race, Two Gallants, The Boarding House, A Little Cloud, Counterparts, Clay, A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, Mother, Grace & The Dead