Steve Toltz Quotes

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

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

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

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

Only silence communicates the truth as it is.

it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words

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.

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

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-

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

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

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

You can't improve on saying nothing.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her. The entire room trembles as they come together. And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

People are often talking when they are not supposed to be.