Dissonances Quotes

#1. One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.

Sonia Delaunay

#2. If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

Jean Sibelius

#3. That's one of the things that "queer" can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#4. Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file.

Matthew Stewart

#5. Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly harmonics and dissonances as these are played into the life of the incarnating ego.

Corinne Heline

#7. There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, grass, and wood-wind, on which St. John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness ...

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. 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

#9. If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Charles Ives

#10. As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.

Ruth St. Denis

#11. Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

Joseph Addison

#12. God holds the key to every door.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Facing one of my own species terrified me far more than fighting an army of blood spitting bugs.

Pam Godwin

#14. My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there ... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.

Rula Jebreal

#15. The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest.

Dietrich Mateschitz

#16. Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.

Laura Prepon

#17. All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.

George Mason

#18. Basketball Rule #1

In this game of life
your family is the court
and the ball is your heart.
No matter how good you are,
no matter how down you get,
always leave
your heart
on the court.

Kwame Alexander