Matt Smith Quotes

It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

I think the whole world should try not talking for a day.

It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

It's hard to misquote someone who doesn't say anything.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

Silence is the language of inertia.

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

Into a mouth shut flies flie not.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.

See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?