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A beautiful face is a mute recommendation. -- Publilius Syrus
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. -- Robert Browning
I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute. -- Shirley Manson
Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry. -- Mark McKinnon
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs. -- Steve Martin
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. -- Marlee Matlin
Science and technology multiply 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. -- J. G. Ballard
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. -- Mary Webb
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. -- June Jordan
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
My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute. -- Adele
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'. -- Joan Miro
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. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable. -- Honore de Balzac
How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song. -- James Grahame
Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. -- Walter Scott
Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy. -- Nora Roberts
My greatest weapon is mute prayer. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What is a farm but a mute gospel? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Law stands mute in the midst of arms. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute? -- Harry Belafonte
I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility, -- Kate Millett
I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility. -- Kate Millett
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are. -- Tove Jansson
When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound. -- James Earl Jones
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
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. -- Michael McKean
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. -- Maria Montessori
There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. -- Charles Dickens
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. -- Maya Angelou
I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics. -- Bonnie Bassler
Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute. -- Burt Rutan
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something. -- Banks
I know what it's like to be growing up, called 'deaf and mute' and 'deaf and dumb.' They're words that are very degrading and demeaning to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It's almost... it's almost libelous, if you want to say that. -- Marlee Matlin
The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was. -- Hans Jonas
It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value. -- Matthew Fontaine Maury
We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics. -- Bonnie Bassler
When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today. -- Maya Angelou
Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you're thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music. -- Tyga
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense curiosity that no Keep Out sign could mute. Physicists do, of course, show a healthy respect for High Voltage, Radiation, and Liquid Hydrogen signs. They are not reckless. I can think of only six who have been killed on the job. -- Luis Walter Alvarez
Beauty is a mute deception. -- Theophrastus
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
the mute protest in your own bones -- George Orwell
Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute. -- William Shakespeare
Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant. -- Pythagoras
Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering. -- Mahatma Gandhi
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute. -- Stephen King
Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind. -- Akiane Kramarik
Smell is the mute sense, the one without words. -- Diane Ackerman
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals. -- Tacitus
O have a care of natures that are mute! -- George Meredith
Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf. -- Terence McKenna
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf. -- Terence McKenna
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. -- Archibald MacLeish
The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne. -- William Butler Yeats
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression. -- Ben Okri
Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In love's country, language doesn't have its place. Love is mute. -- Rumi
The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale. -- Khalil Gibran
For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts. -- Malcolm Lowry
Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid. -- Ryan Montgomery
The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you. -- Thomas Harris
If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap? -- Steven Wright
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds -- Paul Valery
Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church? -- Harry Belafonte
A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart. -- William Wordsworth
I often think my life would be a lot easier if I were a mute. -- Patricia Gaffney
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy. -- Ovid
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno ... -- Federico Garcia Lorca
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover? -- Abraham Cowley
Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . . -- Michelle Moran
We commute to computers; Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors. We survivalists, turned to consumers... -- Talib Kweli
Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear! -- Rumi
Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists. -- Ann Landers
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. -- Anthony Eden
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?' -- Khalil Gibran
In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees. -- Richard Strauss
I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely. -- Leanna Renee Hieber
The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk. -- Peter Jackson
All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute. -- Peter Shaffer
Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me. -- Murray Bookchin
Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind. -- Dave Attell
Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. -- Annie Dillard
We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute. -- David Abram
I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer. -- John Milton
Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have. -- Carson McCullers
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. -- Conor Oberst
We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches. -- Daniel Keyes
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer. -- Emile M. Cioran
Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record. -- Andreas Feininger
Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing. -- Sonya Hartnett
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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
I thought he was a quiet guy. Then I found out he is a mute, and then I knew he was a quiet guy. -- Jarod Kintz
He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute. -- Thomas Kibble Hervey
More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues. -- John Milton
This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees. -- SaigyÅ
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
Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. -- Robert Herrick
If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear. -- Dawud Wharnsby Ali
One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton. -- H. L. Mencken
I remember when Samuel Okwaraji died on the field, I was mute and I didn't even know what I was doing or what I was saying. -- Stephen Keshi
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. -- John Dryden
There I was, casually wishing that I could stop existing in the same way you'd want to leave an empty room or mute an unbearably repetitive noise. -- Allie Brosh
Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In love's country, language doesn't have its place. Love's mute. -- Shams Tabrizi
Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity. -- Ihab Hassan
I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance. -- Elie Wiesel
He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute. -- Harold MacMillan
Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould. -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
On TV, I can hit the mute button and silence any moron. I wish real life came with a hush button I could push and enjoy instant quiet. -- Jarod Kintz
You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart ! -- Rumi
Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of the head is for your drink. -- Rush Limbaugh
Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of the head is for your drink. -- Rush Limbaugh

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