The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides. — Joyce Carol Oates 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
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“I searched for something, but I’d forgotten how to shape sounds into language. I was a Stone Age sex-mute, reduced to communicating… — Patricia Caliskan Copy Share Image
I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and… — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind. — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be--when most likely it was all… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
The sin we commit against each other as women is lack of support. We hurt. We hurt each other. We hide. We… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Still alone. I’ll always be alone, won’t I, even if I feed a house, even if I feed a town, even if… — Stant Litore Copy Share Image
A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
I would be mute, beautiful, changless as the earth for you. I would be your memory, without age, always innocent, always waiting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces… — June Jordan 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
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
To me, dance is an extraordinary thing, more extraordinary than most people usually think. Dance preceded writing, speaking and music. When mute… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“I wanted to scream as I stood there, my toes hanging over the edge of the dock. I wanted to let a… — Keary Taylor 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
The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was… — Banks Copy Share Image
My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around… — Adele Copy Share Image
“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
