#tuned

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#attuned #ears #enhances #evil #fellow

TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#agenda #because #completely #like #liked

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#beings #crave #feel #going #great

I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#changes #christopher #context #different #great

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#assigned #avoid #been #categories #could

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. ↗

— William Gibson

#color #dead #port #sky #station

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#baseball #finely #instrument #little #more

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#another #averted #been #conservative #danger

The bottom string is tuned to an open G. ↗