Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
“I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.” — Leanna Renee Hieber Copy Share Image
It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
“Not being able to talk sucks. There's no doubt about that. There's a lot of times when I almost feel like I'm… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
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,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are. — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way… — Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel Copy Share Image
I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To play sweep arpeggios correctly, you have to mute each note with the left hand immediately after picking it. — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
. . . the cruel part is that, to let the play live, you have to surrender control and let your characters… — Tina Howe Copy Share Image
Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk. — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
