Susan Boyle (1961) British singer
As quoted in "Susan Boyle redeems us from superficiality" by Melanie Reid in TImes Online (18 April 2009) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/melanie_reid/article6115397.ece
WTF Is…? series, Day One: Garry's Incident (October 1, 2013)
Susan Boyle (1961) British singer
As quoted in "Susan Boyle redeems us from superficiality" by Melanie Reid in TImes Online (18 April 2009) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/melanie_reid/article6115397.ece
“[…]Everyone has a secret. Right? Of course I have a secret. I think maybe you too?”
Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Sergeant Patrick Harper and Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, p. 29
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Havoc (2003)
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"May 16, 1973"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Context: A man can keep silence in such a ways that no one will even notice it. The whole point is that we say a good deal too much. If we limited ourselves to what is actually necessary, this alone would be keeping the silence. And it is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this "sin" begins. This is something that must be grasped, a "sin" is something which is not necessary.
“Better too much spade work than too little! This work saves blood.”
Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II
Lieber zuviel als zu wenig Spatengebrauch! Diese Arbeit spart Blut.
Source: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 28.
“[W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.”
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Telling the Truth (1977)
Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist
Source: The English Major
“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …