Daniel Levitin Quotes

Contour refers to the pattern of musical pitch in a melody-the sequence of ups or downs that the melody takes-regardless of the size of the interval.

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• Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Home
  • American

• Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Family
  • Animal
  • Japanese

• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Book
  • Name
  • Profound

• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Worry
  • Mistake

• You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Care

• If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Age
  • Care

• My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Father
  • Political
  • Woman

• Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Reputation

• Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Great
  • Men
  • May

• I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Real
  • Trying
  • School

• So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• There's something healing about tears.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Tears
  • Something
  • Healing

• When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Believe
  • Party

• I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Very

• When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Home

• We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Safe
  • Educated

• Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Struggle

• My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.

  

  Anthony Pratt
  • Faith

• Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!

  

  Homer
  • Family
  • Protection
  • Guns

• There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.

  

  Bat Masterson
  • Winter
  • Poor
  • Hold

• Contour refers to the pattern of musical pitch in a melody-the sequence of ups or downs that the melody takes-regardless of the size of the interval.

  

  Daniel Levitin