In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.
Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!
I'm beating all the weakness out of myself, beating all the give-up out of myself, I'm beating the lack of cardio, I'm beating the lack of confidence - any sign of weakness that's in my heart, I'm getting rid of it
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.
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.
These close games that we're losing, the teams are not beating us. We're kind of beating ourselves.
Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.
Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.
Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.'
I prefer beating Real Madrid to beating Manchester City!
When I was a kid, beating England was incredible; it always had greater repercussion than beating anyone else.
My spleen burst. I remember feeling my heart beating really fast. Beating right out of my chest.
As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.
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.