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  • What people don't realize about Donald Trump - and I don't even know if Donald Trump realizes it - is that every tweet he unleashes against you - and maybe this isn't true for everyone, but in my case it certainly was - creates such a crescendo of anger and, in my case, again, threatening behavior that it would send my life into lockdown.

    "Megyn Kelly On Trump And The Media: 'We're In A Dangerous Phase Right Now'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. December 7, 2016.
  • Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

    Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.466, Simon and Schuster
  • I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.

    Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.294, Simon and Schuster
  • ...five minutes from now, when everything else had dropped away and I realized the full impact of what I’d done, I’d feel my heart breaking.

    Heart   Impact   Done  
    Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.316, Simon and Schuster
  • Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.

    "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 12, 2015.
  • Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

    Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
  • As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

    Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.89, Shambhala Publications
  • I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

    Thinking   Want   Feels  
    Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.157, Profile Books
  • I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed to do that. I had no sense of identity while singing that kind of music.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!

    Horse   Eye   Space  
    David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Macmillan Pub Co
  • Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.

    Song   Father   Heart  
    Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
  • Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

    Jobs   Work   Coffee  
  • Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG.

    Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.199, Simon and Schuster
  • Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper.

    Real   Forever   Cameras  
    FaceBook post by Silas House from Feb 07, 2013
  • I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

  • Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is also a crescendo of what we call life, although very few know what life is. They live, but they live in such ignorance that they never encounter their own life. And it is impossible for these people to know their own death, because death is the ultimate experience of this life, and the beginning experience of another. Death is the door between two lives; one is left behind, one is waiting ahead.

    Death   Ignorance   Two  
  • There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of a love that seems to grow constantly because it has its origin in God.

  • If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

    Silence   Tragedy   Might  
    Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.89, Shambhala Publications
  • Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in listening to the music in each moment.

    Thinking   Symphony   Joy  
  • She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

    John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

    Rivers   Topics   Kind  
  • Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.

    Love   Crescendo   Felt  
    Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.187, Simon and Schuster
  • I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

    Past   Hard Times   Hands  
    Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.295, Simon and Schuster
  • I wondered why life had to suck so hard sometimes.

    Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.473, Simon and Schuster
  • This final sprint of Breaking Bad is like nothing I've ever seen. It's TV as a crescendo, as a magnet, as a wave. These episodes aren't ending so much as they're gasping for breath.

    Finals   Tvs   Wave  
  • We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.

    Pain   Distance   Glasses  
    Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.51, Penguin
  • Your ultimate life experience and legacy is being built moment by moment, day by day. Your story is being crafted by your every action, all leading somewhere, all leading to what one hopes will be a magnificent crescendo.

    Legacy   Stories   Action  
    Brendon Burchard (2012). “The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
  • Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake, standing by the window, leaning against it as against everything. I search in myself for the sensations I feel before these falling threads of darkly luminous water that stand out from the grimy building facades and especially from the open windows. And I don’t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don’t know what to think or where I am.

    Rain   Fall   Sleep  
    Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.63, Penguin UK
  • I love you,Nora. Whatever happens, promise me you'll remember that. I don't care why you came into my life,only that you did. I don't remember all the things i did wrong. I remember what i did right, I remember you. You made my life meaningful. You made my life special.

    Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.308, Simon and Schuster
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