#silent

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#angel #appetites #brain #clear #eye

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#alone #come #essential #into #leave

The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side. ↗

— Matt Czuchry

#kind #main #main thing #side #silent

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#bangs #felt #hated #i #i always

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#coal #could #fields #fight #figures

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once. ↗

— Mark Russell

#just #like #never #once #out

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#anarchy #any #appear #centuries #compare

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#hush #love #over #silent #spring

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#i #ringing #silent #skull

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger. ↗

— David Letterman

#bush #course #president #president bush #pronounce