Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

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

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.