Silently Quotes

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What`s struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion. From my point of view I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn`t seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it`s not really compassionate ... The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren`t they having a conclave? Why aren`t they coming together? I said this after 9/11 and people thought I was nuts. Instead of more violence why isn`t there a meeting of religious leaders? It`s like the peace movement in the Sixties. Musicians got through to people by getting out there and doing peace concerts but we don`t seem to do them any more. If John Lennon were alive today he`d be leading it with a vengeance. They seem to do their protesting on-line and that`s not good enough. You have to get out there and be seen to be vocal, and you`ve got to do it time and time again. There was a big march in London when Britain decided to join the war against Iraq and Tony Blair is on the record as saying `the people who march today will have blood on their hands`. That`s returned to bite him on the ass. People come to me and I`m a bit like the Queen Mother. I never get those problems. I don`t know what it is with me, people treat me very reverently. It was the same when Dave and I had our civil union - I was expecting the odd flour bomb and there wasn`t. Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that`s great. I`m going to fight for them whether I do it silently behind the scenes or so vocally that I get locked up. I can`t just sit back - it`s not in my nature any more. I`m nearly sixty years old after all. I can`t sit back and blindly ignore it and I won`t.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.