{"quotes":[{"text":"If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["characters","mind","people","silence","silent","writers","writing"],"id":14727,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"Wisdom got sound. It is called silence.","author":"Sameh Elsayed","tags":["adam-elsayedtood","experience-plus","human-development","joumana-ezz","noha-abdel-hameed","silence","silent","sound","voice","wisdom"],"id":16210,"author_id":"Sameh+Elsayed"},{"text":"The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...Dead silence.Literally dead.","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["anguish","appalling","appealing","atmosphere","atmospheric","calm","calmness","dead","death","goth","gothic","gothic-romance","literal","literally","loud","mysterious","mystery","noise","noiseless","onimous","pain","painful","quiet","romance","romantic","serene","silence","silent","sinister","suspense","tranquil","unbroken","yell","young-adult"],"id":23410,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"An imaginary friend once asked me why Americans can't stand Russia. The answer was cold, deadly, silent, and, well expected. It’s because in Soviet Russia nothing happens anymore, because it doesn’t exist anymore. And Americans are all about happenings. If there isn’t one – they don’t go where it isn’t, because there isn’t anything to happen to them there.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["america","answer","answers","cold","deadly","death","expectation","expectations","expected","friend","happening","happenings","imaginary","imagination","imagined","kgb","nothing","nsa","question","questions","russia","silence","silent","soviet-russia","soviet-union","ussr"],"id":23787,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are still not content, do more of it! Keep doing it until you become a master. Then look around, and you will see fewer critics and many compliments!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["achieve","again","around","compliments","congratulations","content","critic","criticise","criticize","critics","do-it","easy","endurance","endure","few","fewer","food-for-thought","hibernate","israelmore-ayivor","little","look","look-around","master","more","much","opponents","oppose","opposition","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","persistent","praise","quiet","shut-down","shut-up","silence","silent","small","success","try","try-again","watch-and-pray","win","winner"],"id":24287,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"During war, the laws are silent.","author":"Quintus Tullius Cicero","tags":["silent","laws "],"id":28637,"author_id":"Quintus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["attentive","babbling","christian","christianity","deny","god","god-s-voice","hearing","ignore","listen","listening","silence","silent"],"id":33542,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.","author":"Theodore C. Sorensen","tags":["giving","silent","doing "],"id":44061,"author_id":"Theodore+C.+Sorensen"},{"text":"If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["bigmouthed","blabbermouthed","blabby","buy-into","chatter","cheap","criticize","don-t-speak","expensive","foot-in-mouth","gossip","loquacious","preach","quiet","rambling","shut-up","silent","talk-down","talkative","tongue-in-cheek","verbose"],"id":45138,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?","author":"Peter Jackson","tags":["black-and-white","silent "],"id":45672,"author_id":"Peter+Jackson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":136,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}