Zell Miller Quotes

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.

I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.

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

So you have free speech, but you don’t have much to say.

The voice is a second face.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

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

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

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

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

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

The problem with these interviews is that there's no sarcastic font.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.