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Quotes About Amplification

Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
Most drag queens dress up as super women, as an over exaggeration of the female form, because we like women, usually powerful women. I think that's why we are so over exaggerated; we are an amplification of the women who empowered us in our youth.
~ Sharon Needles
I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.
~ Eugene Chadbourne
In the U.S., everything is big - it's like looking through a magnifying glass.
~ Yung Lean
The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.
~ Ken Hill
Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.
~ Margaret Atwood
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
~ Esther Dyson
Me enloquecía que estuviera tan lejos, fuera del alcance de mi doliente piel. Pero también había algo intenso en la incorporeidad, como si la distancia amplificase nuestra conexión.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Projection of sound gives the stage a life different from real life. As actors and interpretive artists, we must not only be able to know the attitude of the script, we must also make ourselves heard - without amplification.
~ Jason Robards
There's this amplification that happens anytime you tell a story. You let it go out into the world. It's the most beautiful thing. All I can do is look at it in wonder and amazement.
~ Kate DiCamillo
What's interesting about collaborations is the possibility for one plus one to equal three.
~ Rei Kawakubo
Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.
~ Marc Ribot
A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
~ Joanne Harris
With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.
~ Margot Kidder
Being crazy doesn't mean being mentally challenged. Maybe it just means being you...amplified a 100 times over.
~ Mamur Mustapha
Since good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows.
~ John Milton
What you resist persists. Previous traumas that are unresolved or hidden have a significant influence in amplifying current traumatic events and hindering recovery.
~ Ellen Kirschman
Tuchman's Law: "The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to- tenfold." Barbara Tuchman Foreward to A Distant Mirror Published 1978
~ Barbara Tuchman
The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Tuchman's Law, as follows: "The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
I think that's why so many school bands start on guitars: because they hide their mistakes with the distortion.
~ Winston Marshall
Amplification through simplification.
~ Scott McCloud
More power added to a recording of poor poetry simply resulted in louder poor poetry.
~ Scott Warren