Octatonic Scale Quotes & Sayings

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe. — Frederick Douglass

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to. — Howard Rheingold

The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage. — Tom Scholz

The purity of intention repels fear. — Toba Beta

The world would say that we did not exist, that only our actions, our habits, were real, which the world called our crimes or our sins. But Scrotes began to think that we did indeed exist. That we had a nature our own, which was not another's perverted or turned to sin. Our actions could not be crimes, he believed, because they were the expressions of a nature, of an existence even. Which came first, he asked, the deed or the doer? And he began to answer that, for some, it was the doer. — Jamie O'Neill

It is not biology alone but heroism too that drives women to find the will and grit and creativity to put one's own impulses aside to serve the needs of a tiny creature around the clock - especially in an environment in which that heroic choice is only casually acknowledged, much less honored, cherished, or assisted. I believe the myth about the ease and naturalness of mothering - the ideal of the effortlessly ever-giving mother - is propped up, polished, and promoted as a way to keep women from thinking clearly and negotiating forcefully about what they need from their partners and from society at large in order to mother well, without having to sacrifice themselves in the process. — Naomi Wolf

It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable. — Michelle Pfeiffer

Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for harmony. He thought about the Pythagorean major third, the Didymus comma, the way the intervals sound out of tune rather than as though they were different notes. This, he thought, was where his brilliance at mathematics bled into his love of music; music was the realm in which his mathematical brain danced. — Ru Freeman

When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you. — Marguerite Duras

The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand. — William Steig

I could have gotten away with it, I would have given her a 24-karat gold necklace that read Property of Quinn Sullivan — Penny Reid

We don't hide crazy," I said. "We put it on the porch and let it entertain the neighbors. — Nick Wilgus

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions. — Aldous Huxley

Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam ... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition. — Mohammed Arkoun

Wait, here comes Cooper. In which case, carry on with your melodramatic moaning, but put some majesty into it. You know he lives to hear you judge everything as unworthy. — Sherry Thomas