Modulated Quotes

#1. Channel the power of anger into the admirable qualities of passion, strength, and conviction or courage. Use quiet, carefully modulated words surrounding an edge of steel.

Gerald J. Lieberman

#2. First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

Saint Basil

#3. Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.

Joseph Joubert

#4. I have never told a lie or modulated my natural voice ... I can't help what people think sounds male or female.

Alice Hastings Bradley

#5. Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered."

Robert De Niro

#6. The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer to contemporary idiom, especially when those cadences have been masterfully twisted to satirical ends.

Geoffrey Dutton

#7. A fine image is geometry, modulated by the heart

Willy Ronis

#8. And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

Kathy Acker

#9. The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

Joseph Joubert

#10. Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.

Robert Charles Wilson

#11. The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.

Lewis Black

#13. It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

Ivor Novello

#14. We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them

Sterling W. Sill

#15. Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

Noel Coward

#16. A fish kept in a glass of water will live forever

Samuel Pepys

#17. Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

Henry David Thoreau

#18. All that hath been majestical
In life or death, since time began,
Is native in the simple heart of all,
The angel heat of man.

James Russell Lowell

#19. In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like ...

Bob Mould

#20. There's no shame in honest suffering, my dear.

Andrea Cremer

#21. Love comforts, it is gentle, it is warm and you can feel it within your entire being.

Ellen J. Barrier

#22. Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?

Bob Hope

#23. I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.

Mark Helprin

#24. I have anonymously helped many thousands.

Taylor Caldwell

#25. I think it's great to be talked about as a woman film-maker. It's part of who I am; it affects me daily. I want it to be part of the conversation. I'm for any scheme or initiative that gives women a way in.

Sarah Gavron

#26. There's nothing to be sorry for," Beck said. "You didn't know any better. And Ulrik was the only one who liked those damn doritos. You did us all a favor.

Maggie Stiefvater

#27. In part, that's because when we delay marriage, it's not just women who become independent. It's also men, who, like women, learn to clothe and feed themselves, to clean their homes iron their shirts and pack their own suitcases.

Rebecca Traister