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Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record. — Andreas Feininger

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. — Annie Dillard

the mute protest in your own bones — George Orwell

Keep silence, be mute.
If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD,
be an ear! — Rumi

The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides. — Joyce Carol Oates

Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute. — William Shakespeare

My greatest weapon is mute prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind. — Dave Attell

Better choose silence than bitter words which shall leave nothing but bitter footprints — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Apparently my inner self is mute. — Kim Harrington

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees. — Richard Strauss

You don't count in zeroes; when you count, zero is the mute background and one is your tool. — David Whiteland

Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. — Patrick Rothfuss

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth. — Conor Oberst

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute ... — Michelle Moran

If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear. — Dawud Wharnsby Ali

O deaf and mute
and blind and beautiful and interminable rose
who into time, attar and verse transmute — Cecilia Meireles

To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea — Munia Khan

Silence may be golden but when you whisper with desire in my ear.....the world goes mute~ — Ladyaslan

This last mute touch that lingers is farewell. — Dana Gioia

The wind went mute and the trees in the forest stood still. It was time for the last tale. — Lawren Leo

Nothing could be more heart rending than this mute and motionless dispair — Emile Zola

More often than not, your best move is to keep quiet. — Richelle E. Goodrich

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you. — Thomas Harris

Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute? — Harry Belafonte

Repetition is the mute language of the abused child. — Judith Lewis Herman

Mute the venomous self-talk in your mind. Eliminate the poisonous theory of, "Same Crap, Different Day." Today is a new day - make it count! — Steve Maraboli

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. — Anthony Eden

Music is my voice, which illuminates my soul. To deny me this inspiration, is to mute my contemplations on life. — Patricia H. Graham

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi

He stood beside a cottage lone
And listened to a lute,
One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone,
And the nightingale was mute. — Thomas Kibble Hervey

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound. — James Earl Jones

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches. — Daniel Keyes

Another female observer found Madison entertaining in private but "mute, cold, and repulsive" in company. — Ron Chernow

Great griefs are mute. — Lisa Scottoline

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words. — Diane Ackerman

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are. — Tove Jansson

We commute to computers;
Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors.
We survivalists, turned to consumers ... — Talib Kweli

Beasts of England had been abolished. From now onwards it was forbidden to sing it. — George Orwell

Why are some walls so loud and others mute? — Eduardo Galeano

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul. — Mahatma Gandhi

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts. — Malcolm Lowry

Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno ... — Federico Garcia Lorca

I shook my head, feeling like a natural disaster on mute. — Penny Reid

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf. — Terence McKenna

It was nice to feel something other than anxiety, or mute fury, the twin emotions that seemed to make up so much of my daily life. — Jojo Moyes

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. — Robert Herrick

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression. — Ben Okri

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds — Paul Valery

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer. — John Milton

In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Mute Cyclops is the Eunuch King. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

But I didn't know that then. I washed my hands in the cold, uncaring sea, and my conscience was as silent and remote as the mute, unreachable stars. — Gregory David Roberts

I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely. — Leanna Renee Hieber

The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute. — Peter Shaffer

O have a care of natures that are mute! — George Meredith

In love's country, language doesn't have its place. Love is mute. — Rumi

So many miseries have craz'd my voice,
That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute. — William Shakespeare

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute. — Stephen King

There are so many kinds of reality, and so many secret openings in the walls we think are mute. — Helene Cixous

One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us — Ikechukwu Izuakor

Law stands mute in the midst of arms. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

My heart is mute--my heart is mute — Charlotte Bronte

She hit bottom when she physically attacked a deaf-mute. This was a boy of fourteen, a beloved neighborhood figure who delivered for the nearby deli. — David Sedaris

Never hire anyone who starts a sentence with the word "Dude!" and never work for a guy who doesn't know the difference between mute and moot — Larry Brooks

He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I - a dog?" said that mute caress. — Ouida

Absurdity is not an autonomous state; it does not exist in the world, but is instead exhaled from the abyss that divides us from a mute world. — Robert Zaretsky

If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps. — Charity Parkerson

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk. — Peter Jackson

Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable. — Adam Langer

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute. — Shirley Manson

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. — Jeffrey Eugenides

So, now, with me. That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute. — Dante Alighieri

We're just different."
"Yeah," I say. "I'm mute and you have verbal diarrhea. — Janet Gurtler

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees. — Saigyo

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals. — Tacitus

Beauty is a mute deception. — Theophrastus

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists. — Ann Landers

Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry. — Mark McKinnon

What is a farm but a mute gospel? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning. — Lee Child

Speechless, castaway and wry
a spellbound oddity am I
my feet are locked upon the clay
my gaze is locked upon the sky — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. — Robert Browning

How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song. — James Grahame

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs. — Steve Martin

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing. — Sonya Hartnett

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind. — Akiane Kramarik

Maybe if you could put him on mute ... and cut off his hands ... maybe - just maybe - he'd be tolerable then. — Kody Keplinger

A mute mentor & blind novice
I grabbed your hand; made me wise — Shahzaib Ansari

One faithful witness is worth a thousand mute professors of religion ... Our faith grows by expression ... we must share it - we must witness. — Billy Graham

Life is like a mute tutor: it teaches by showing what we call fate — S.E. Sever

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Okay," she said. "I'm so glad to see someone, who cares if it's a deaf-mute and a retard. — Stephen King

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, and evil tongues. — John Milton

Speak, fair; but speak fair words, or else be mute: — Georgina Guthrie

The words for much that remains mute in me — Sigmund Freud

When should I awaken the heart within her that was mute and sleeping now? — Charles Dickens