We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute. — David Abram Copy Share Image
If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The body is the subconscious made visible. To ignore its whispers is to mute the very core of human suffering.” — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
“Agnes Carmichael, who turns out to be the killer, hasn’t spoken a word – hardly surprising, as she’s a deaf mute.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in… — Saigyō Copy Share Image
Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
. . . You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong? Charlie: No, no, I’m okay, I just had to take directions from… — Christopher Moore 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
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No, I don’t have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don’t know yet… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
“Some have given up the expectation of meeting genuine, ‘heartfelt’ people and prefer to retire to a mute world, where fish, at… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I've always thought it would be nice to have the house to myself for a while. This place gets so loud all… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
“You press your internal mute button, power off your schemas, and take a full, unexasperated breath. If appropriate, you masterfully hold the… — Wendy T. Behary Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
