Resonances Quotes

#1. People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody else's head, in the dark snow of their mind.

Diana Georgeff

#2. One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

Gloria Naylor

#3. My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

Naomi Wolf

#4. Since 1960s pop art the art world has been happy for artists to use the lowbrow to add zest and authenticity to their works. But middlebrow has resonances of the suburban bourgeousie who might see art as aspirational by association.

Grayson Perry

#5. 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

#6. You choose your behaviors based on their metaphorical resonances ... - Hazel Grace Lancaster

John Green

#7. Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

David Shields

#8. Hatsumi had some quality that could send a tremor through your heart. It was nothing forceful. The power she exerted was a subtle thing, but it called forth deep resonances.

Haruki Murakami

#9. I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape different resonances and shifts in tone.

Anna Journey

#10. The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.

Wassily Kandinsky

#11. Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.

Tim Gane

#12. You'll forgive me for saying so, my dear, but I perceive very little aura around you. Very little receptivity to the resonances of the future.

J.K. Rowling

#13. People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

Bobby Bowden

#14. Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.

Ann Beattie

#15. The sins of my sex ... A woman who is ugly is pitiable, but a man who is ugly is forgiven.

Michelle Franklin

#16. When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.

Robert Rodriguez

#17. Looks good on paper + Tony Scott = run for the hills.

Vern

#18. THROUGH THE EYES OF A GEEK by Kat Brookes

Kat Brookes

#19. Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige,
or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on
academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also
matters immensely for our personal destiny.

Daniel Goleman

#20. But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute - look at it and really see it - live it - and never give it back.

Erma Bombeck