Quotes About Pitch

The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

In its greatest moments, memory seems to desert human beings ; only tiny ordinary events leave clear detailed trace. Probably none at the pitch of exaltation which Charles and his men had reached had any remembrance of what happened; we can be supermen only on condition of going into a trance. The result alone is related

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds;And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleas'dWith melting airs or martial, brisk, or grave:Some chord in unison with what we hearIs touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

The pitch of the song of the Scarlet Tanager, for example, is different in the East, where the woods are denser, than it is in the West.V

Intonation is the use of pitch to convey meaning in a language. It has been described as the music or melody of speech.

One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.

President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed.

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.

What do you call a generic pitch sent out to hundreds of strangers hgoping that one will bite? Spam.

The person making the pitch has presumably put a lot of time, thought, and energy into gathering their thoughts and presenting them clearly to an audience. But the rest of the people in the room are asked to react. Not absorb, not think it over, not consider—just react. Knee-jerk it. That's no way to treat fragile new ideas.

I think, first and foremost, Wayne Rooney is a class player. Wherever he is on the pitch, he can make an impact.

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

I've tried to pitch 'Borgen - the Musical,' but they just won't listen to me!

It's nice to be cheered, but I'll always have a good attitude on the pitch.

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.

It's been frustrating for me, as I've been injured a lot, but hopefully, I can get more fitness and get time on the pitch.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

I'm a little younger than these guys, but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original 'MacGyver' series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for 'MacGruber.'

People think footballers are all like robots - we can control everything on the pitch. But your heart is beating 200 times a minute; it's very, very physical.

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.