Every letter has its own peculiar air, which air is very much hurt if the tune is not rightly pitched; for instance, if a tune is set on A natural, and in pitching the tune, you set it a tone too low, you transpose the key into G, which is perhaps quite different from the intention of the author, and oftentimes very destructive to the harmony.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING The best general rule I know of, is, to set the tune on the letter the author has set it, unless he ... WILLIAM BILLINGS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN Funny, cute and kissable I've found a girl that makes me lose control Every night's like t... THE SUMMER SET A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other... PARUL WADHWA Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune. COUNT BASIE This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone. You don't even care, do yo... J.K. SIMMONS You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose... MALLORY ORTBERG “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. ERICA JONG Love is a weakness which converts even the strongest minds as its slave and makes them sing its tune... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature. DEYTH BANGER In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The river of knowledge has no depth. CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune. COUNT BASIE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA Although I didn't set out to run my own label, I found it made sense quite quickly. I can say wh... WITHERED HAND You can't take love for granted! You need to be patient. And just as flowers take time to blossom, l... AVIJEET DAS Every time I play a tune, it's different, ... It should be different because that's the essence of w... ERNIE WATTS Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO The more you genuinely praise people in your consciousness, the easier it is to tune into your own i... CHRISTOPHER DINES You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER When you tune into your soul essence and are in harmony with the Supreme, you are tapped into your s... SHARON KIRSTIN The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right JULIO DAVILA Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes! DEYTH BANGER When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings. CHARLES SPURGEON Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby. SHAH ASAD RIZVI That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've g... WENTWORTH MILLER Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.... TERRY PRATCHETT Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.... TERRY PRATCHETT To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes. DEBASISH MRIDHA The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth. THE TRUTH It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of r... SAMUEL BUTLER There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t... C. JOYBELL C. If the weather is particularly prominent on a given day, we'll tune in the Weather Channel. If news ... CALVIN BELLAMY Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi... CHRISTINA ENGELA
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JOSH BILLINGS Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. JOSH BILLINGS The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. JOSH BILLINGS One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit n... JOSH BILLINGS There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. JOSH BILLINGS Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. JOSH BILLINGS Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. JOSH BILLINGS There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. JOSH BILLINGS There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. JOSH BILLINGS Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. JOSH BILLINGS Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. 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BRIAN BILLINGS Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhi... VICTORIA BILLINGS Those who enter heaven may find the outer walls plastered with creeds, but they won't find any on th... JOSH BILLINGS If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. JOSH BILLINGS My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing unt... JOSH BILLINGS No one can disgrace us but ourselves. JOSH BILLINGS It may be risky to marry for love, but it's so honest that the Lord just has to smile on it. JOSH BILLINGS One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can. JOSH BILLINGS Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got. JOSH BILLINGS Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. JOSH BILLINGS There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity. JOSH BILLINGS Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. JOSH BILLINGS Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. JOSH BILLINGS Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one place. JOSH BILLINGS Ive never known a person to live to one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. JOSH BILLINGS It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to comm... JOSH BILLINGS I dont care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words. JOSH BILLINGS Some folks are wise and some otherwise. JOSH BILLINGS It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich. JOSH BILLINGS Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first. JOSH BILLINGS Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins VICTORIA BILLINGS There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins. JOSH BILLINGS A sekret ceases to be a sekret if it iz once confided - it iz like a dollar bill, once broken, it iz... JOSH BILLINGS The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. JOSH BILLINGS Credit is like chastity, they can both stand temptation better than suspicion JOSH BILLINGS Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. JOSH BILLINGS If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. JOSH BILLINGS I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, an... JOSH BILLINGS Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawf... JOSH BILLINGS I think he was very ahead of his time in his thinking because he could see what we were doing to Mot... ALICE BILLINGS It went on for 15 years. It started out feeding 400 a week with supplemental food. It ended up feedi... ALICE BILLINGS He came in sixth. They only took the top three. ALICE BILLINGS It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. JOSH BILLINGS It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours to... JOSH BILLINGS A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it JOSH BILLINGS Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once JOSH BILLINGS The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are JOSH BILLINGS In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worshi... JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughe... JOSH BILLINGS The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billin... JOSH BILLINGS There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings. JOSH BILLINGS Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Bill... JOSH BILLINGS Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it get... JOSH BILLINGS In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings. JOSH BILLINGS I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else. JOSH BILLINGS Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal JOSH BILLINGS The less we know the more we suspect JOSH BILLINGS Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust JOSH BILLINGS Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. JOSH BILLINGS There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins JOSH BILLINGS To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. JOSH BILLINGS Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. JOSH BILLINGS Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer ... JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughe... JOSH BILLINGS Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot JOSH BILLINGS