Silent may mean any of the following:
In music:
- Silent Records, a defunct record label
- Silent (rock group), a Brazilian rock group
- The Silents, an Australian psychedelic rock band
- "Silent" (Gerald Walker), the first single from the rapper
Other uses:
- Silent film, a film with no sound
- Dark (broadcasting) or silent, an off-air radio or TV station
- Brandon Silent (born 1973), South African former footballer
- Charles Silent (1842-1918), German-born American jurist
- Buffalo Silents, a 1920s exhibition basketball team whose members were deaf and/or mute
- Silent Pool, a lake in Surrey, United Kingdom
- Air Energy AE-1 Silent, a German self-launching ultralight sailplane
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Famous quotes containing the word silent:
“Marriage isn’t a word—it’s a sentence.”
—Caption from King Vidor’s silent film. The Crowd (1926)
“They mustn’t know my despair, I can’t let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn’t bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I’m showing off; when I’m silent they think I’m ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I’m tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.”
—Anne Frank (1929–1945)
“We were that generation called “silent,” but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period’s official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man’s fate.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)