Otis Skinner quotes

“One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.”
-- Otis Skinner

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“When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.”

“When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.”

“When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.”

“Silence is a text easy to misread.”

Source : A. A. Attanasio (1997). “The Eagle and the Sword”, Harper Prism

“All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.”

“In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.”

“There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.”

“The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.”

Source : Archibald MacLeish (1940). “A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish”, Boston, Mifflin

“A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.”

Source : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.11, Truman State University Press