Mute

Famous quotes containing the word mute:

“In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person’s mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.”
—Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)