... our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same st...uff is going on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you... take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hortensio. Madam, my instrument's in tune. Bianca. Let's hear. O fie, the treble jars.... Lucentio. Spit in the hole, man, and tune again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then Pope, as harmony itself exact, In verse well disciplined, complete, compact,... Gave virtue and morality a grace, That, quite eclipsing pleasure's painted face, Levied a tax of wonder and applause, Even on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art; And every warbler has his tune by heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we should swap a good library for a second-rate stump speech and not ask for boot, it would be thoroughly in tune with our hear...ts. For deep within each of us lies politics. It is our football, baseball, and tennis rolled into one. We enjoy it; we will hitch up and drive for miles in order to hear and applaud the vitriolic phrases of a candidate we have already reckoned we'll vote against.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chance: That tune, they been playin' it all day. What is it? Dude: Oh, it's some Mexican piece. I heard it farther south....<...br />Colorado: Well, they call it "The Deguello," the cutthroat song. The Mexicans played it for those Texas boys when they had them bottled up in the Alamo. Played it day and night 'til it was all over. Now do you know what he means by it? Chance: No quarter, no mercy for the loser.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There once was a brainy baboon Who always breathed down a bassoon,... For he said, "It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When any mournful Tune you hear, That dies in ev'ry Note;... As if it sigh'd with each Man's Care, For being so remote; Think then how often Love we've made To you, when all those Tunes were play'd,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at hi...s convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »