Semitones Quotes & Sayings

The best time to go to Disney World, if you want to avoid huge crowds, is 1962. — Dave Barry

It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst. — Ian Fleming

The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love.
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave.
Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire. — Stephen Fry

Because they are living creatures and that means they have to work to stay alive. Staying alive always has a dark side. — Jayne Castle

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave — Stephen Fry

What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered. That Maori player was like a tree, a great indestructible oak with deep roots and a powerful radiance- everyone could feel it. And yet you also got the impression that the great oak could fly, that it would be as quick as the wind, despite, or perhaps because of, its deep roots. — Muriel Barbery

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century. — Jilly Cooper

The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I can see this so clearly because I have long ago given up my own hopes of being happy. — Iris Murdoch

Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters". — James Marcus