Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes

Sometimes silence can seem so loud.

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

Quiet is better than loud.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Quiet down, we don't want to wake the Russians.

...even the donkeys were quiet.

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

Silence is so freaking loud

Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Don’t move, and breathe only if you have to. (Caleb)

Silence 'tis awe decrees.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

The rest, is silence.

Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

Hushed as midnight silence.

Where's the need of singing now?

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Silence is become his mother tongue.