Breaking The Awkward Silence Quotes & Sayings

My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality. — Robert Browning

Political leaders have to withstand headwinds. — Thomas De Maiziere

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. — Marcel Proust

Simple truths are never platitudes; they only become commonplace because we fail to live them profoundly. — John Furia Jr.

I had actually wanted to say something more, to express a wider gratitude for the meal we were about to eat, but I was afraid that to offer words of thanks for the pig and the mushrooms and the forests and the garden would come off sounding corny, and, worse, might ruin some appetites. The words I was reaching for, of course, were the words of grace. But as the conversation at the table unfurled like a sail amid the happy clatter of silver, tacking from stories of hunting to motherlodes of mushrooms to abalone adventures, I realized that in this particular case, words of grace were unnecessary. Why? Because that's what the meal itself had become, for me certainly, but I suspect for some of the others, too: a wordless way of saying grace. — Michael Pollan

Do you want to build a snowman~ Dongwon (Normal Class 8) — Youngpaka

My closest friends in the league are Dirk Nowitzki and Rex Chapman. Although I think Michael Finley and I will be friends forever. — Steve Nash

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.' — Sally Field

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable — Homer

Just as the body takes time to recover from an infection that has afflicted it, so the soul needs times of silence and solitude for its recovery from the insane pace of modern life. — Howard Baker

The sound of the ocean breaking our silence was like chocolate syrup poured into a glass of milk, dispersing into awkward dark clumps while waiting to be stirred. — Rachel Cohn

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind. — Nellie McKay

My study throngs with characters waiting to be written. Imaginary people, anxious for a life, who tug at my sleeve, crying, 'Me next! Go on! My turn!' I have to select. And once I have chosen, the others lie quiet for ten months or a year, until I come to the end of the story, and the clamor starts up again. — Diane Setterfield