Muting Quotes

#1. This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

A. J. Jacobs

#2. Pudge," she said, faux-condescending, "the sound is an integral part of the artistic experience of this video game. Muting Decapitation would be like reading only every other word of Jane Eyre.

John Green

#3. It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours. Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.

John Berger

#4. In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance.

Tim Cope

#5. I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

Vanessa Paradis

#6. I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

Gregory Maguire

#7. Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs

Ellen Hopkins

#8. The wind,
Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry,
Came bluntly thundering, more terrible
Than the revenge of music on bassoons.

Wallace Stevens

#9. Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.

George W. Bush

#10. As addictive and satisfying as my first tattoo, Wolf's Remedy left me craving more.

Lyle Tuttle

#11. I learned long ago that silence invites all manner of confidences.

Kate Morton

#12. I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigaret butt. I picked it up without shame, lit it as I stood with one foot in the gutter, puffed it and exhaled toward the stars. I was an American, and goddamn proud of it.

John Fante