Jandy Nelson Quotes

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.

Sorry to interrupt myself, but it's the only way I stop talking.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

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

During the actual filming, I’m not really listening to dialogue. I’m watching to see if the actors are communicating something and expressing something. I’m just watching a conversation. You’re not aware of exactly what people are saying. You are aware of what they are INTENDING and what kind of feeling is going on in that scene.

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

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

When mouths close, it’s because there’s something important to be said.