Crescendo Quotes - Page 2

• She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

  John Eldredge

  Finishing, Finals, Lasts

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What people don't realize about Donald Trump - and I don't even know if Donald Trump realizes it - is that every tweet he unleashes against you - and maybe this isn't true for everyone, but in my case it certainly was - creates such a crescendo of anger and, in my case, again, threatening behavior that it would send my life into lockdown.

  Megyn Kelly

  People, Realizing, Threatening

  "Megyn Kelly On Trump And The Media: 'We're In A Dangerous Phase Right Now'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. December 7, 2016.

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• Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.

  Mahan Esfahani

  Phrases, Wells, Effects

  "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 12, 2015.

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• whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!

  David Lodge

  Horse, Eye, Space

  David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.

  Andrea Gibson

  Fall, Eye, Boys

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.58, SCB Distributors

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• Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Song, Father, Heart

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Florence and the Machine: 'I was almost out of control'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2011.

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• It grabs me, but not as much as it grabs some of the other people that rave about them. With the Black Keys, I'm missing crescendos with the sax, keyboard or guitar solo. It never comes to me. All my favorite music is rife with crescendo and I'm not hearing enough with them. If you can get the Black Keys to hear this, tell them I offer my crescendo guitar anytime they desire it.

  Ted Nugent

  Keys, Guitar, People

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• The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

  Gene Cernan

  Anchors, Two, Three

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• I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Civilization, Humanity

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• Laughter. Yes, laughter is the Zen attitude towards death and towards life too, because life and death are not separate. Whatsoever is your attitude towards life will be your attitude towards death, because death comes as the ultimate flowering of life. Life exists for death. Life exists through death. Without death there will be no life at all. Death is not the end but the culmination, the crescendo. Death is not the enemy it is the friend. It makes life possible.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Attitude, Laughter

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• Take the example of my daughter. A lot of people were speaking out about education when the Taliban were bombing schools in Swat Valley, but Malala's voice was like a crescendo. It spread all around the world. She was the smallest but her voice was the biggest, because she was speaking for herself.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Mother, Daughter, School

  "Ziauddin Yousafzai: learn from Malala, use your own voice to demand rights" by Anna Leach, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2014.

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• The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it was once regarded as an aphrodisiac. It had no place in the troll's world of instant gratification. It makes no appeal to the meat-and-two-veg mentality.

  Jane Grigson

  Views, Expression, Vegetables

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.15, U of Nebraska Press

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• I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed to do that. I had no sense of identity while singing that kind of music.

  Alex Winston

  Creative, Singing, Identity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.

  Michael Lang

  Country, Art, Dedication

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• This final sprint of Breaking Bad is like nothing I've ever seen. It's TV as a crescendo, as a magnet, as a wave. These episodes aren't ending so much as they're gasping for breath.

  Andy Greenwald

  Finals, Tvs, Wave

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• Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper.

  Silas House

  Real, Forever, Cameras

  FaceBook post by Silas House from Feb 07, 2013

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• There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of a love that seems to grow constantly because it has its origin in God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Self, Hands, Possibility

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• I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

  William Stafford

  Rivers, Topics, Kind

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