Tunes Quotes - Page 28

• The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Talking, Opera, Refrain

  Note in the score to "The Poisoned Kiss" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1936.

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• I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Hands, Feet, Gaps

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “In the Heart of the Country: A Novel”, p.10, Penguin

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• All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN

  Chuck Grassley

  Bills, Week, Stimulus

  ChuckGrassley @ChuckGrassley, twitter.com. February 02, 2009.

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• For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.

  Andy Partridge

  Song, Rain, Heart

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• Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Airplane, Self, Television

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• I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.

  David Boreanaz

  Vintage, Car, Watches

  "David Boreanaz - Interviewed on location for Carpe Noctem in Los Angels". BBC Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. August 22, 2001.

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• We are all frustrated with computers, all the time... But we also always develop a relationship with computers these days - something my parents never had... there%u2018s always a kind of negotiation, sometimes you are in tune with it and other times you are fighting with it.

  Wade Guyton

  Fighting, Technology, Parent

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• If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?

  David Harvey

  Powerful, Example, Slides

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.

  Devendra Banhart

  Grieving, Leaving, Crow

  "Song: 'Cripple Crow' ('Cripple Crow')". 2005.

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• Buddy Holly was the geekiest looking guy in the world, but he had some really rockin tunes.

  Chris Cheney

  Guy, Hollies, World

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• Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.

  Philip Yancey

  Healing, People, Grace

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Song, Children, Book

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• I remember having some problems with [the Deus Ex theme] when I first heard it and I was trying to figure out how to tell [Alex Brandon] I wanted changes. But then I noticed that I couldn't get it out of my mind. I was whistling or humming it to myself all the time. So I just kept my mouth shut and let it be. I think it's a highly addictive tune

  Warren Spector

  Thinking, Mind, Trying

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• It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

  Lily James

  Cutting, Men, Curves

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• I've always loved independent music stores because the staff is usually there because of a genuine love and appreciation for music. They're more in-tune with the customers and I'm willing to pay the extra dollar or two for the service they provide. Some of my greatest music discoveries have come from picking up an album at an indy store and the cat behind the register saying "You like this man? Have you heard of so-and-so?" I prefer to shop where people understand me and the music- the music i like.

  Brother Ali

  Appreciation, Cat, Independent

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• You can tell I have kids right? Just so I don't break out into a Barney tune here in three minutes.

  Chris Spielman

  Kids, Three, Break Out

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• Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought.

  William Moulton Marston

  Powerful, Book, Keys

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• My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

  Kim Novak

  People, Steps, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly - That was big time for blacks.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Mistake, Athlete

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• The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.

  Michael Wilbon

  Media, Degrees, Want

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

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• One of the really nice things about having the time to do a movie is that you can fine tune it. With TV, you really need A-level people to make a good TV show because it's moving so fast.

  Joel Surnow

  Nice, Moving, Tv Shows

  "Christopher Meloni and Writer/Director Joel Surnow Talk SMALL TIME, Returning to a Script from 1976, Casting Process, SIN CITY 2, and SURVIVING JACK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

  David Bowie

  Mind, Would Be, Boring

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.35, Melville House

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• It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us.

  Sylvia Earle

  Taken, Years, Earth

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the sports pages, public schools, college professors and administrators, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Unless liberals specifically seek out Ann Coulter books and columns, which I highly recommend, or tune into Fox News or conservative talk radio, they have no idea what conservatives are thinking.

  Ann Coulter

  Sports, Fashion, Morning

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. November 2013.

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• To me, the producer is there to make sure the album gets done and gets done as good as possible. So if that means that you have to help write a bridge or help write a part, that's what you do. If that means you help tune the guitars, then that's what you do. If that means all you do is tell the band their takes are good and they should stop f——— with things, then that's what you do. If it means you don't do anything except make sure the band doesn't fight, then that's what you do. Sometimes it's a little more stressful than others, but for the most part, you just don't complain about it and you just get it done.

  John Congleton

  Writing, Mean, Guitar

  "John Congleton: Meet Indie Rock's Unsung Hero Of 2011". Interview with Mike Katzif, www.npr.org. December 23, 2011.

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