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Quotes About Amplified

and I cannot tell you how vastly my loneliness was deepened, how poignant and amplified the world before me seemed, when I found on one page a few greasy looking smears and next to them, written in soft pencil– by a beautiful girl, I could tell, whom I would never meet– "Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love.
~ Billy Collins
Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's just you or me, amplified.
~ Susanna Kaysen
I have spent more time thinking about European issues than even I can imagine - so many years thinking about Britain and the way our influence around the world was amplified through the European Union.
~ Jo Johnson
heroic leaders often made mistakes ... mistakes that were amplified by the number of followers who were held in thrall by charisma. (Introduction to Dune Messiah)
~ Brian Herbert
her iPhone in the bowl so the sound would be amplified—pretty much the cheapest speaker system
~ Steven James
I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.
~ James Bay
Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.
~ Susanna Kaysen
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
~ Eric Clapton
In the event of beauty, a non-self part of my inner space seems to resonate in the colors on the wall, in the sounds pouring into my ears. Hugely amplified, might this resonance actually kill me? "A beautiful way to die" – to be destroyed by vibrations that removed myself from myself.
~ Timothy Morton
It was laughter that might have been squeezed from the tubes of his own darkest heart, then amplified fifty times through the bellows of a loon's ass.
~ Tom Robbins
Their recollections were inexhaustible and they repeated them continually, amplified by memory and repetition; they looked into one another's eyes, sclerotic and with yellowing whites, and saw there what the younger men could not even suspect.
~ Ivo Andri?
The reason I think we hold films like 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Citizen Kane' in such high regard is those are movies that were amplified by their twists but were already bringing the goods.
~ Dan Trachtenberg
But where does the silence that neglects her end, and where does the silence that respects her begin? The problem with silence is that it can't speak up and say why it's silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can get misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.
~ Cathy Park Hong
But where does the silence that neglects her end, and where does the silence that respects her begins? The problem with silence is that it can't speak up and say why it's silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can be misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.
~ Cathy Park Hong
on flat affect] ... worlds and events that would have been expected to be captured by expressive suffering—featuring an amplified subjectivity, violent and reparative relationally, and assurance about what makes an event significant—appear with an asterisk of uncertainty.
~ Lauren Berlant
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.
~ H. L. Mencken
Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.
~ Andy Cohen
One of the strange things about doing publicity is that a mistake in a newspaper profile long ago is repeated and amplified over time.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.
~ Roger McGuinn
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.
~ Jimmy Wales
I don't love my speaking voice, frequently - but I think that we need music, and when a person sings, those kind of vibrations go through your body, it's amplified in the room. It goes through everyone else's body, too.
~ Alison Sudol
Amplified authentic opinions can be driven with passion while still anchored in respect for those that have a different view.
~ Loren Weisman
Shostakovich hated the way propaganda amplified his life and sought to make it heroic. It galled him. He was naturally shy. Fame was deadly in Stalin's Russia. It marked you out for destruction.
~ Unknown
When the media gets involved, in the United States, that's a war you've got a damned good chance of losing, because the restrictions on us are immediately amplified, and that's sensationally good news for our enemy. Every
~ Marcus Luttrell