Octave Quotes

“I understood that the law of the world was strife; an inexorable, murderous law, which was not content with arming nation against nation but which hurled against one another the children of the same race, the same family, the same womb. I found none of the lofty abstractions of honor, justice, charity, patriotism of which our standard books are so full, on which we are brought up, with which we are lulled to sleep, through which they hypnotize us in order the better to deceive the kind little folk, to enslave them the more easily, to butcher them the more foully.”
― Octave Mirbeau

“Sometimes you finally understand something so profoundly life-changing your whole body starts to tingle. It’s like you’re made of vibrations that just jumped an octave or two.”
― Brownell Landrum, Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version

“She’s sitting right next to you, man!”
Randy’s voice had risen a full octave, but luckily the marching band drowned it out with a rousing rendition of Wang Chung’s only hit.”
― Matthew Speak, Devils Glen

“On a scale of one to eight
Youth is middle C”
― Nanette L. Avery