Top 22 Transposed Quotes
#1. I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that.
Tobe Hooper
#2. One can only have the illusion of honesty when not knowing his own identity. In this sense, moral is an illusion. It manifests only on those that have transposed such illusion.
Robin Sacredfire
#3. What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle.
Claude Calame
#4. The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.
Albert Einstein
#5. Music has shaped men's fashion, and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads, but music and fashion are connected genetically.
Hedi Slimane
#6. Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These tasks can be transposed into worship.
John Piper
#7. Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.
Jonah Lehrer
#8. Although separating mitochondria and microsomes might appear worlds apart from the determination of the molecular weight of macromolecules, certain concepts were common to the two operations and could be usefully transposed from the latter to the former.
Christian De Duve
#9. Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species
Michel Foucault
#10. Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.
Anais Nin
#11. I looked briefly up from my notes. I was surrounded by hearts, sectioned and preserved. Hearts with holes. Hearts with leaking valves or thickened walls. Hearts with narrow or transposed aortas. I closed my eyes.
Claire Holden Rothman
#12. Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
Andre Gide
#13. In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
Ralph Fiennes
#15. If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature.
Federico Chini
#16. Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.
Laurence Olivier
#18. From the first day we have been fighting the wrong enemy; our common enemy is religion which dictates upon us division and partition.
M.F. Moonzajer
#19. If you see an injustice, and don't move to right it when you have a chance, history won't forget that, either.
Diane Duane
#21. Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.
William Feather
#22. They served to remind Cabal - should a reminder ever be necessary - why his social skills were so poor: people were loathsome and not worth the practise.
Jonathan L. Howard
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