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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West -- Vita Sackville-West
My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors. -- Jessica Pare
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power. -- Kate Millett
Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter. -- Donna Mills
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black. -- Joan Didion
When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before. -- Peter Straub
I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads. -- Anne Robinson
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring. -- Ian Mcewan
The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view... The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this... We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system. -- Mario Gabelli
Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive. -- Ciaran Hinds
People don't realize that the Obama Administration has been, if anything, harder on whistleblowers than the Bush Administration. Part of the reason is that they know that the response will be more muted because the traditional constituency supporting whistleblowers just happen to be the same constituency as Obama's. -- Jonathan Turley
I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon. -- Kate Christensen
Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it. -- Luke Davies
Orange? Like Effie's hair?" I say."A bit more muted," he says. "More like sunset. -- Suzanne Collins
Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art. -- Bill Barich
Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted. -- Joyce Carol Oates
It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb, It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from. -- Kendrick Lamar
How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still? -- Babette Deutsch
Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results. -- David Levithan
The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like. -- Marcel Dzama
Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in sepia. -- Anne Rivers Siddons
I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs. -- Julie Christie
...bathed in the thick honey gold of the sun through encircling trees only just beginning to turn the muted metal colors of fall." -- Anne Rivers Siddons
Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail. -- Edmund White
This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold. -- Bailey Bristol
It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum's sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush? -- Ian Mcewan
Gospel hope keeps us from being muted by being either a naive Pollyanna or a despairing Cassandra. Voices of warning are meant to be heard, not just raised." -- Neal A. Maxwell
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power -- Kate Millett
For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it. -- Kate Zambreno
I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled. -- Charles de Lint
His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky. -- Cassandra Clare
Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider. -- Ernest Bramah

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