Quotes About Mute

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Emo Mimes: They rock out to mute blank tapes next door.

I don't speak," he wrote, "I'm sorry.

Everything that has been wrestled from doubt I welcome-the mouths that burst open after long knowledge of what it is to be mute.

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, Come and find out.

The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself.

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.

Les arbres poussaient en silence et le règne animal limitait sa présence à des actes obscurs et muets.

New furniture has no character whereas old furniture always has a past. New furniture is always mute, but old furniture can almost talk. You can almost hear it talking about the good times and troubles it's seen. I think there is a Country and Western song about talking furniture, but I can't remember the name.

No words came out of me. Words can also be the feeblest emissaries for our feelings.

There's no reason to speak. I have nothing to say.

he was about as forthcoming as an amnesiac with lockjaw.

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

Silence is become his mother tongue.

Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.

of things, mute specters haunting the dramas of seduction

We are not only losing the war with enemies whose stated goal is our destruction, we are led by a political party that constantly finds excuses not to take these enemies seriously, and never has to account for its disgraceful conduct because its potential opposition is mute.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!

If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?

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.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

But you must be awash in a sea of compliments, my lady. Every gentleman you meet must voice his admiration, his wish to make love to you. And those are only the ones who may voice such thoughts. All about you are men who cannot speak their admiration, who must remain mute from lack of social standing or fear of offending you. Only their thoughts light the air about you, following you like a trail of perfume, heady but invisible. (Winter Makepeace)

The only way to silence the cries is by making no sound at all