Muted Quotes
36 quotes by 33 authors
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O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in…
— Robin Winks
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The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at (and marketed to) us, and used to define and…
— Ashley Judd
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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…
— Peter Straub
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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
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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…
— Kate Millett
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Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just…
— Rebecca Walker
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Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.
— Bill Barich
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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…
— Mario
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The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors…
— W G Sebald
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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,…
— Anne Robinson
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Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them…
— Jose Clemente Orozco
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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
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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West
— Vita Sackville-West
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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…
— Ian Mcewan
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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…
— Ian Mcewan
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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
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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…
— Charles de Lint
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Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that…
— Tom Robbins
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Orange? Like Effie's hair?" I say. "A bit more muted," he says. "More like sunset.
— Suzanne Collins
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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…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Muted Quotes
33 authors contributed a total of 36 Muted Quotes, led by these top contributors: