Dissonances In Music Quotes & Sayings

Battle droid? The most incompetent droid soldier in the history of both the Republic and the Empire. — Chuck Wendig

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced ... that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed. — John Cage

I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women. — Elizabeth Gilbert

If love is under siege, it is because it threatens the very essence of commercial civilization. Everything is designed to make us forget that love is our most vivid manifestation and the most common power of life that is in us. Shouldn't we wonder how the lights that glimmer in the eye can blow a fuse for a time, even as barriers of oppression break and jam our passions? Yet despite a life stunted and distorted by mediated Spectacle, nothing has ever managed to strip love of its primal force. Although the heart's music fails to overwhelm the cacophony of profit efficiency, bit by bit it composes our destinies, according to tones, chords, and dissonances which render us happy if only we learn to harmonize the scattered notes that string emotions together. — Raoul Vaneigem

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind. — Camille Paglia

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate? — Nicholas D. Kristof

I know that what's said is often less important than the tone of voice in which the words are spoken. There is music in dialogue, mysterious harmonies and dissonances that vibrate in the body like a tuning fork. — Siri Hustvedt

I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do. — Cesar Millan

It's perfect! But you know what this means, don't you?"
"What?"
"This mean I have the upper hand when we play war."
Franz reached for a pillow. "I'm older, and taller. You'll never have the upper hand. I will always be able to catch you. — Jack Lewis Baillot

You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess! — Tamera Mowry

If I meet two guys at the same time and one of them is coming on really strong and talking a lot, and the other is more quiet and reserved, I'm going to like the second one. I want someone who isn't going to give it away in the first meeting. — Arielle Kebbel

I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived. — Marcia Cross

Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others. — Beverly Daniel Tatum

Life is easy. Live it while you're alive.

Because when you're gone you won't have an opportunity. — Scott Hildreth

I wouldn't leave her behind for anything. And not because I was noble or brave or chivalrous. I'm not any of those things. I was afraid that leaving her behind would rip me in half. And — Ransom Riggs

the infallible judgment of reality, where one's failures or shortcomings cannot be interpreted away. — Matthew B. Crawford