Mute Quotes

(Murphy said he is particularly appalled by speeches made by attorneys in TV courtrooms. Sam Waterston (as Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy on) Law & Order ... the witness sits mute, the judge stares and the defense attorney seems to be Crazy-Glued to his chair.

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.

The Indians once told me that stones are the most revered and ancient of recording devices. And that perhaps I am here on this Earth to write of these mute histories - just another stone, an `Oliver` stone.

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.

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.

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.

The silence of the grave gagged the living; people who had talked with his incarnate approval became sepulchrally mute.

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

When I was from Cupid`s passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term `mute music`.

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.

I`m slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.