Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

Even silence speaks.

it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

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

In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

The body says what words cannot.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

Silence is also conversation.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Guys know how to read each other's signals. They know how to telegraph love for one another without throwing their arms around one another.

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

When I was growing up, you never knew whether people were being serious or not. There was a lot of nodding and winking.

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

Even silence is so articulate at times.