Mute Quotes

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation. (Publilius Syrus)
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. View quote
Robert Browning
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. View quote
J. G. Ballard
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. View quote
Joan Miró
For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts. View quote
Malcolm Lowry
Call it not vain they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. View quote
Walter Scott
I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility. View quote
Kate Millett
Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant. View quote
Pythagoras
Law stands mute in the midst of arms. View quote
Cicero
Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little Tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. (Thomas Gray)
We commute through computers. Spirits stay mute while our ego spread rumors. We're survivalists turned to consumers. View quote
Talib Kweli
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discover And not to me, thy no less silent lover? View quote
Abraham Cowley
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton. View quote
H. L. Mencken
What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The Bible's blind. The Torah's deaf. The Qur'an is mute. If you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth. View quote
Conor Oberst
Oh, where is man- That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator- The interpreter of all her mystic strains - Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee? View quote
Hartley Coleridge
Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name. View quote
Marlee Matlin
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door. View quote
Emma Donoghue
So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school. (James Earl Jones)
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past. View quote
Mary Webb
I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help. View quote
Michael McKean
I dream of cloisters of marble where in divine silence the heroes, standing, rest; at night, in light of the soul, I speak with them: at night! They are in a row: I walk among the rows: the stone hands I kiss them; the stone eyes open; the stone lips move; the stone beards tremble; they seize the sword of stone; they cry: place the sword in the sheath! Mute, I kiss their hand. View quote
José Martí
Quite often, when actors have such a strong charisma in real life, eventually it has to affect the characters they play. For myself I'm not charismatic in that way. I'm not a "performer". Ideally I would stay mute as River. That's the reason why, for a long time, I've said the opposite of what I really thought. In interviews, I've also played characters that I wasn't. I've lied and often contradicted myself to dumbfound people. It's all over now, because I have nothing left to hide. Eventually, I'm quite an ordinary person. View quote
River Phoenix