Alice Duer Miller Quotes

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

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

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences.

Even silence speaks.

I think you can actually express a lot more in ways without words.

It's a good challenge as an actor to express feelings without saying too many words.

If there is an interpreter sitting between two friends, he may be able to translate the words but not the feelings with which I say something.

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

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.

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.

I went to the door, and Gary tried hard not to notice I was blue. He looked at his feet, and he looked above my head, and he cleared his throat. It's okay,' I said. 'I know I'm blue.' It caught me by surprise,' he said. 'I didn't want to seem rude.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.