Modulate Quotes

#1. As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary past, those attributes helped individuals to survive and reproduce.

Michael Shermer

#2. I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

Jeff VanderMeer

#3. I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

Brian Eno

#4. You need to modulate that unwarranted ire, buddy. I'm not your 'ho and you ain't my pimp

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. Your most stable beliefs, the ones that actually modulate your behavior, aren't about life purposes; they are about momentum management. You are more likely to switch religions than to switch from an impatient to a patient temperament.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#7. The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.

Leonard Mlodinow

#8. She knocked a third time, three regular strokes, gentle, but perfectly distinct, and with meaning in them; for, modulate it with what cautious art we will, the hand cannot help playing some tune of what we feel , upon the senseless wood.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.

Susan Howatch

#10. The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word:
REDRUM

Stephen King

#11. I don't need to be coddled and sheltered. I don't need all my battles fought for me. I do need to be believed in.

Loretta Chase

#12. "My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.

Robert Six

#13. A tear rolled down my cheek
And more came down
Until tears rolled down like a stream.
My eyes were blind with tears for you.
They washed my eyes till I could see.

Calvin O'John

#14. Gregarious hermit. I wanted the warmth of spontaneous connection and the freedom to be left alone.

Gail Caldwell

#15. Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don't ask a question before you Google it. You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.

Austin Kleon

#16. It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down

Billie Jean King

#17. Janco smiled with a predatory grin. If anyone beats us. And I'm feeling disinclined to allow that to happen.

Maria V. Snyder

#18. I think when you're trying to get a film together that's had a long gustation process before I came on board and was trying to get financed in various stages, sometimes you're trying to make it more friendly to the financial interests or the commercial interests of various parties.

Todd Haynes

#19. We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Abraham Joshua Heschel