W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

I do pauses, pauses work for me

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

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

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

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.

Comedy is all about the pause.

I want to let my feet speak.

I want the ball in my hands, throwing the ball, making decisions.

I raised my hands, trying to shush her. "Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.

Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

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

I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you don't talk, you almost become the mirror image of the other person.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

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

I am interested in silences

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.