Inflection Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in… — Fran Lebowitz
When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes… — Billy Crystal
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. — Bela Lugosi
Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude. — John C. Maxwell
We are at an inflection point in history. — Joel Garreau
The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that… — Joel Garreau
Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard… — Joichi Ito
I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a… — Jonathan Krohn
Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words. — Peter Mayle
Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover… — Ingmar Bergman
I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women… — Andrea Jung
I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÃS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The… — Anais Nin
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past. — Carlos Fuentes
It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say â€œwe" with a certain… — Emile M. Cioran
In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become… — Madeleine L'Engle
My mate Karl once told me heâ€™d been looking after this five-year-old boy who â€“ not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his… — Russell Brand
When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard. — Pat Boone
I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of… — Kat Edmonson
Singing is all about certain inflection on certain lines. I used to listen to tapes of everybody from Michael Jackson and Prince to Earth, Wind… — Trey Songz
True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection. — Barton Gellman

Who Wrote These Inflection Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 22 Inflection Quotes as follows: