Quotes About Pitch

Similarly with pitch: From a one-dimensional continuum of molecules vibrating at different speeds, our brains construct a rich, multidimensional pitch space with three, four, or even five dimensions (according to some models). If our brain is adding this many dimensions to what is out there in the world, this can help explain the deep reactions we have to sounds that are properly constructed and skillfully combined.

Music is organized sound.

The basic elements of any sound are loudness, pitch, contour, duration (or rhythm), tempo, timbre, spatial location, and reverberation.

Its definition can be a bit murky, but to me, native advertising is a sales pitch that fits right into the flow of the information being shown. It doesn't interrupt - native ads don't pop up or dance across the screen - and its content is actually valuable to the person viewing it.

I've learnt to adapt on the pitch and, when I think back, also in front of goal.

I don't know a high C from a low C.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

I always feel that I can make a difference; that I can help if I'm on the pitch.

Progressives may privately consider themselves superior, but they know they cannot include that claim in their pitch. Consequently they claim superiority by default. In a society where government controls things and distributes wealth, the power of the bureaucrat becomes predominant.

A logline is simply a movie's one-sentence description.

You'll be able to use your one-liner on your website, in emails, keynotes, and elevator pitches. Your one-liner will be the central component to your entire messaging campaign.

The Democrats' tactical mistake was to pitch another Clinton, closely linked to the political and financial establishment, against an anti-establishment candidate.

As I clicked in, I saw Kevin pitch the small park in the direction of the other kaiju, which meant in our direction as well. The massive clod flew apart, and one sizable chunk sailed right toward us. That has trees in it, my brain said.

There are several ways to wear a hat or a cap. A man may express himself in the pitch or tilt of a hat, but not with a helmet. It won't go on any other way. It sits level on the head, low over eyes and ears, low on the back of the neck. With your helmet on you are a mushroom in a bed of mushrooms.

Your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ...in perfect harmony, and taking your pitch from God, you may sing in unison and in one voice to the Father through Jesus Christ.

If I were a bathroom tile salesman, my pitch would be 'Think of how great this will look in the background of your social networking pics.'

A joke is a curve ball—a pitch that bends at the last instant and fools the batter. "You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that," Burrows said. To achieve the unexpected twist, it's sometimes necessary to sacrifice grammar and even logic.

Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable.

I've dreamed again of being in hell, vast cliffs with eyes, iron streets populated with gargoyles, half-dressed harpies, and in the streets chariots going of themselves, spitting the stench of pitch and sulphur

To go somewhere and say: "I have this really terrific movie, but I need some . . . money" - Good luck!

Only in the eleventh century was the staff of parallel horizontal lines invented to indicate pitch. At the same time the notes were named ut, re, mi, fa, so, la, from the opening syllables of the successive lines of a familiar hymn: Ut queant laxis / Resonare fibris. . .

The basic principle of Western staff notation is that passing time is represented through a series of marks arranged from left to right on the page. Within the five lines of the staff (or stave), notes are arrayed from high to low. So a score is a kind of two-dimensional plot in which the horizontal axis is time and vertical one is pitch;

Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.

It's like dancing, like being a hummingbird among elephants, like having all your joints lubricated and everything suddenly turned to perfect pitch. Even the light changes. I call it the blue place.