Diminuendos Quotes & Sayings

That was it. She came out of it. She never had such a down as that or such an up as the three days that preceded it, not ever again in her life. The rest of her life was like a long thin line with little diminuendos and tiny little crescendos, and friends visiting from out of town. — Sheila Heti

Illiteracy was the usual condition in sixteenth-century England, to be sure. According to one estimate at least 70 percent of men and 90 percent of women of the period couldn't even sign their names. But as one moved up the social scale, literacy rates rose appreciably. — Bill Bryson

And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. More than affection: they loved each other with a passion. — Philip Pullman

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results. — Mark Victor Hansen

If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism. — Antony Flew

Uplift, your mind is a gift. — LL Cool J

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't. — Alexander Payne

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's. — Kate Langley Bosher

Small price to pay for beauty. — Butch Cassidy

the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid] — David Wishart

Approach difficult tasks with a positive attitude - you'll inspire others and feel better about what's ahead — Denise Austin

Our relationship with food
how, when, what and why we eat
is a direct expression of our underlying feelings, thoughts and beliefs about ourselves. It has to do with stances we take that get reflected not only in our relationship with food, but in all our relationships. It just so happens that the relationship with food causes enough conflict, grief, shame and hurt that we're willing to look at it. — Geneen Roth

Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit. — Dan T. Cathy