Tuning Quotes - page 2
The drug hit him like an express train, a white-hot column of light mounting his spine from the region of his prostate, illuminating the sutures of his skull with x-rays of short-circuited sexual energy. His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol. His bones, beneath the hazy envelope of flesh, were chromed and polished, the joints lubricated with a film of silicone. Sandstorms raged across the scoured floor of his skull, generating waves of high thin static that broke behind his eyes, spheres of purest crystal, expanding...The anger was expanding, relentless, exponential, riding out behind the betaphenethylamine rush like a carrier wave, a seismic fluid, rich and corrosive.
William Gibson
We are supposedly a country at war, but we're all going about watching American Idol and having not all that different a time than if we weren't at war. I observe the weird juxtaposition of reading the newspaper and then tuning into American Idol and getting really upset when Constantine gets voted off and then wondering where my head was at. But in a way, that's also the salvation of the country, our level of optimism.
Paul Weitz
My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.
Timothy Leary
Even if without the Scott's proverbial thrift, the difficulty of solving differential equations is an incentive to using them parsimoniously. Happily here is a commodity of which a little may be made to go a long way. ...the equation of small oscillations of a pendulum also holds for other vibrational phenomena. In investigating swinging pendulums we were, albeit unwittingly, also investigating vibrating tuning forks.
George Pólya
We're not really the authors of our work: we're channels, tuning into another frequency, another dimension, and bringing that information down into the physical world, where - using the tools, the talents and perspectives that are uniquely ours - we transcribe and embellish that information, transforming it into that wonderful creature called a Story.
In the end, it doesn't matter whether the transmission is instant or unfolds slowly, it's the opening up that's so magical. That moment of realizing that you're connected to something so much bigger than yourself. I remember, years ago, when I was just beginning work on Moonshadow, standing in the shower - mouth open, eyes glazed, still as a statue - watching the ending of the series play out on the movie screen of my psyche. Make no mistake: I didn't create the scene, I just witnessed and transcribed it.
J. M. DeMatteis
