Top 33 Mute Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Mute Quotes from famous people such as Tallulah Bankhead, June Jordan, Vivek, Mary Webb, Tove Jansson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would ma

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
Tallulah Bankhead
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
June Jordan
In ‘Uthamaputhiran,’ ‘Velaiyilla Pattathari’ and ‘Yennai Arindhaal,’ I was a mute spectator to everything.
Vivek
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow’s past.
Mary Webb
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
Tove Jansson
I know what it’s like to be growing up, called ‘deaf and mute’ and ‘deaf and dumb.’ They’re words that are very degrading and demeaning to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It’s almost… it’s almost libelous, if you want to say that.
Marlee Matlin
Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
Maria Montessori
I’d really like to play a character who’s inarticulate. I always play people with language. It would be good to play a mute or a fool or a saint.
Michael Emerson
I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it’s important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.
Bonnie Bassler
I don’t care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts, and I used to watch on in mute astonishment. How could anyone actually argue about something that could be looked up?
Susan Orlean
A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.
Publilius Syrus
I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
Maya Angelou
I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It’s not like you’re Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It’s like – there’s plenty of help.
Michael McKean
I’ll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I’ve been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can’t hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.
Alison Sweeney
So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn’t talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.
James Earl Jones
The latest revelation – from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree – is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
Hans Jonas
What is a farm but a mute gospel?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute.
Burt Rutan
On a bus ride through China, my family and I had talked for hours before a police officer boarded to conduct an inspection. My mother and brother couldn’t speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.
Lee Hyeon-seo
When I started my first blog years ago, I just wanted to share my perspective. For a long time, models had been these mute pretty faces – and I wanted to have a voice.
Coco Rocha
I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don’t want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
Shirley Manson
I like to have a great vibe wherever I am creating. I like to have movies playing on mute – just eye candy – maybe a friend in the room, maybe a lovely young lady, someone you can use as a muse, who can give you inspiration by her essence.
Luke James
We got HBO when I was 7. My parents would be in bed, ‘Children of the Corn’ would be on at midnight, and I’d watch it on mute.
Pedro Pascal
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J. G. Ballard
I’m quiet, so people might think I’m a mute.
Madlib
‘A Death in the Gunj’ is set in 1979 and we had to mute a joke that referred to Indira Gandhi. The censors also wouldn’t allow the tortoise that some of the characters talk about to be called Kalidas because it’s the name of a respected poet.
Konkona Sen Sharma
I think that crying is a way women and men express frustration, anger, or passion. And we should not feel compelled to mute those emotions.
Jennifer Palmieri
Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.
Marlee Matlin
My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
Adele
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It’s like you’re mute or something.
Banks
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
Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute i

Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump’s latest racism are telling you who they really are.
Max Boot
To play sweep arpeggios correctly, you have to mute each note with the left hand immediately after picking it.
John Petrucci