Margaret Weis Quotes

In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind. Communion means I am not a mind, you are not a mind - just your heart melting into my heart, no words.

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

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

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

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

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

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

The eyes have one language everywhere.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

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

In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.

I definitely, really appreciate that quality that humans like to show constantly, even without saying anything, that they're with you and they're processing something.