Muted Quotes

36 Muted quotes by 33 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art. — Bill Barich
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
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
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
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
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
Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West — Vita Sackville-West
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
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
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
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
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
Orange? Like Effie's hair?" I say. "A bit more muted," he says. "More like sunset. — Suzanne Collins
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
Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale… — Lisa Ann Sandell
I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more… — Douglas Coupland
Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it. — Luke Davies
My "heart". Does that pitiful organ still represent anything? It lies motionless in my chest, pumping no blood, serving no purpose, and yet my feelings… — Isaac Marion
I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the… — Dan Wells

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