#mut

I watch silent movies on mute. But only for the dialogue.
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— Jarod Kintz

#movies #mute #silence #silent-movies #movies

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#mutation #natural-selection #nature

Respect is a mutual interest, your gains depend on your loses. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#respect #respect

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#reading-books

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#greatest weakness #human #human nature #inconsistency #mutability

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

#before #corner #days #had #happened

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done. ↗

— Tori Amos

#divine #done #follows #greatest #how

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#build #commute #even #mile #oregon

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. ↗

— David Attenborough

#between #both #dependency #environment #lives

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#almost #barter #begin #both #continue