Tunes Quotes

679 Tunes quotes by 553 unique authors

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in… — C.S. Lewis
Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,… — C.S. Lewis
Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run… — Virginia Woolf
One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange… — William Gibson
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight… — Grant Morrison
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. — Emily Dickinson
I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this… — Mark Haddon
Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Reality whistles a different tune underwater. — Tom Robbins
Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed? — Don Marquis
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. — Ursula K. Le Guin
In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to… — Sarah Vowell
My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune. How… — Robert Burns
In the middle of the night I am awakened by a sound. I sit up abruptly in bed. I hear it again. It's music. Wait,… — Deb Caletti
She who pays the undertaker calls the tune. — Margaret Atwood
I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes… — Dylan Thomas
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as… — Albert Einstein
It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers — Terry Pratchett
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. — Albert Einstein
Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing… — Tom Stoppard
Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart. — Haruki Murakami
It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant… — Kristin Cashore
I let out a laugh that sounded more like the yip of a startled poodle. "Superp-powers? I wish. My powers aren't winning me a slot… — Kelley Armstrong
Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old… — Brom

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