Transposing Quotes

#1. I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

Trey Anastasio

#2. I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

Mary McCarthy

#3. I returned to London in the spring of 1926 for the General Strike. It was the topic of Paris. The French, exultant as always at the discomfiture of their former friends, and transposing into their own precise terms our mistier notions from across the Channel, foretold revolution and civil

Evelyn Waugh

#4. If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#5. All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

David Hume

#6. I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.

Georges St-Pierre

#7. Shame breeds fear. It crushes our tolerance for vulnerability, thereby killing engagement, innovation, creativity, productivity, and trust.

Brene Brown

#8. It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

Jane Goodall

#9. Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,
My presence, like a robe pontifical,
Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state,
Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.

William Shakespeare

#10. There is no end to our story.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

Thia Megia

#12. Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

#13. Nerds ... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.

Tom Wolfe

#14. I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-15 destroyed during the Korean War. Where I was in 1953.

Buzz Aldrin

#15. Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

Samuel P. Huntington

#16. It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

H.L. Mencken

#17. The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance of urban and rural interests.

Paul A. Baran

#18. Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

Rabindranath Tagore

#19. Acting is a life of rejection.

Lauren Bacall

#20. The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

Andy Warhol