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Quotes About Mute

Q: What do you call an Italian with his hands in his pocket? A: Mute.
~ Scott McNeely
The electric technology is within the gates, and we are numb, deaf, blind and mute about its encounter with the Gutenberg technology, on and through which the American way of life was formed.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Speaking a lot about something does not in the least guarantee that understanding is thus furthered. On the contrary, talking at great length about something covers things over and brings what is understood into an illusory clarity, that is, the unintelligibility of the trivial. But to keep silent does not mean to be mute ... one who is mute still has the tendency to speak. ... Authentic silence is possible only in genuine discourse. In order to be silent, Dasein must have something to say.
~ Martin Heidegger
I had a million things to say and none I knew how.
~ Jojo Moyes
He doesn't talk to me, he behaves as if the act of talking physically pains him and
~ Gillian Flynn
Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
~ Edith Pearlman
No, it's the situation that makes it so good: the mute father trying to teach his child about love.
~ Mary Rodgers
a thousand conflicting emotions rendered her mute as she bade me a tearful, silent farewell.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.
~ Khalil Gibran
It was real sweet, except that he'd drugged me and ridden me to within an inch of my life, and I was still so high I was paralyzed and mute. But other than that, I guess it was pretty romantic.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily. The best thing about it was that they could see that you'd muted them, and they couldn't do a damn thing about it.
~ Ernest Cline
The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily.
~ Ernest Cline
In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.
~ Evan Osnos
It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
~ Sam Shepard
My dad was a high school and college coach, and in my house my dad muted sideline reporters because he wasn't interested in what they had to say.
~ Samantha Ponder
Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump's latest racism are telling you who they really are.
~ Max Boot
The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible to refute since the person who could condemn them has been silenced forever.
~ Sue Grafton
Very well," he said with a small sigh. "Ladies today are so very capable. It breaks my hea rt, really." He leaned in, almost as if sharing a secret. "No one likes to feel superfluous." Grace just stared at him. "Rendered mute by my grace and charm," he said, stepping back to allow them to exit. "It happens all the time. Really, I shouldn"t be allowed near the ladies. I have such a vexing effect on you.
~ Julia Quinn
There was nothing I could say, so I said nothing.
~ Haruki Murakami
WWE is such a universal form of entertainment. I believe that you can watch WWE in mute and still know what is going on.
~ Jinder Mahal
They were what the Americans, bless them! call dumb.
~ Stella Gibbons
I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak'd for me alone, When all beside is mute.
~ Eliza Acton
But the sound that came out of his mouth was no sound at all; it was the emptied skin of sound without flesh or bones.
~ Susanna Clarke
Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --
~ Sylvia Plath