Transpose Quotes

#1. If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world.

Edward Hoagland

#2. But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

Anais Nin

#3. Jazz is more than music, it's a state of mind. Hot, cool or in between; we take those outward expressions and transpose them into our inner-most thoughts. We let our instruments do our bidding.

J.A. Rollins

#4. What makes the role of a Scribal Watchman distinct is the commission to transpose God's word through use of the prophetic pen in a way that unites others to pray.

Deborah M. Taylor

#5. Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.

Gail Zappa

#6. You once told me, when you visited my house, how Anne conducts herself with men: she says, "Yes, yes, yes, yes, no."' Wyatt nods; he recognises those words; he looks sorry he spoke them. 'Now you may have to transpose one word of that testimony. Yes, yes, yes, no, yes.

Hilary Mantel

#7. It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

Samuel Reshevsky

#8. The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.

Charlie Trotter

#10. We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.

Johan Huizinga

#11. My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

Mark Leyner

#12. She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes and a tragic smile, the course of whose life would conspire in time to transpose that pair of adjectives.

Michael Chabon

#13. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.

Haruki Murakami

#14. The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

Haruki Murakami

#15. You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#16. Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

William Shakespeare

#17. Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.

Hedi Slimane

#18. I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Alicia Witt

#19. An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

Henri Matisse

#20. Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I'm inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It's so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

Alexander McQueen

#21. When I finished high school, I wanted to take all my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle. But my mom said no. See, she had a brother who died in a horrible motorcycle accident when he was 18. And I could just have his motorcycle.

Anthony Jeselnik

#22. Women destroy me. I allow them to.

Raquel Cepeda

#23. I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

Shakira

#24. We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline.

Matthew Simmons

#25. I did not hesitate to tell them that I not only had the authority of facts, but that it was my conviction that our worst enemy was ourselves, our vanity, our pride and our desire for honor.

F. Sionil Jose

#26. The thunder tiger looked at her like an avalanche looks at a butterfly.

Jay Kristoff

#27. Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

David Ogilvy

#28. The other is how I could have loved Cristine so fiercely, who was such a world champion bitch, who even came after me once with a kitchen knife.

Peter Heller

#29. good guide to developing this art is Parenting With Love and Logic, by Foster Cline and Jim Fay.

Trish Maskew

#30. Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life, not reaching to some point, no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage, moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.

Rajneesh

#31. Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: "I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come", and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: "You see, my son, time turns here into space

Richard Wagner

#32. I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

Pia Zadora

#33. For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, "Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her.

John Green