Tuning Out The World Quotes

#1. Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.

Seamus Heaney

#2. Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse

Ben Harper

#3. Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are.

Theodore Schultz

#4. Even the simple act of tuning the radio to a music program can lift our spirits and show the world I'm not going to give up.

Shirley Corder

#5. If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!

Rand Paul

#6. As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.

Coco Chanel

#7. Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?

Dennis Cooper

#8. Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be served.

Herman Melville

#9. With Jesus, if we want to gain, we must give up. If we want to be filled, we must deny ourselves. If we want to truly get close to God, we'll have to distance ourselves from other things. If we want to conquer our cravings, we'll have to redirect them to God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#10. I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members.

Mallory Ortberg

#11. HIP-HOP HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS DEALING WITH MUSIC, RAP, GRAFFITI ART, B-BOYS (WHAT YOU CALL BREAK BOYS) ... AND ALSO DEALING WITH CULTURE, AND A WHOLE MOVEMENT DEALING WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, AS WELL AS PEACE UNITY AND FUN.

Afrika Bambaataa

#12. By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

Michael Sheen

#13. You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#14. Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies.

Bohdi Sanders

#15. To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.

Bill Hader

#16. When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don't invite someone into your world very easily.

Sara Sheridan

#17. Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well.

Wes Craven