Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive. — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
“I tell you all the time, you will never be able to replace me with a brass and steam contraption.” — Maeve Alpin Copy Share Image
I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s. — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
We got really close, but it was just too complicated and secretive to shoot at the Met Ball. That would have been… — Stephanie Savage Copy Share Image
I've told the UFC brass I want big fights: fights that are going to put money in their pockets and money in… — Urijah Faber Copy Share Image
If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between… — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise. — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect.… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male… — Michael Parkinson Copy Share Image
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys, There is but one a bad one; The tenth is he, the parson's fee, And indeed… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco,… — Patrick Gordon Copy Share Image
I was actually in Japan when I had the conversation with the TNA brass about my situation coming to an end with… — Lance Archer Copy Share Image
If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I like to hear the brass vibrate in the sound, not the reed. I like a dark sound, which is contrary to… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression -… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up. — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
It's very common in Iceland, this music-making and artistic expression by non-professionals. The brass band tradition is not as big, but there… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
If you think back to the beginning of the label, we knew we had to strike quickly and aggressively and go for… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
Barton is a pretty brass tacks kind of guy. Kinda get the job done so I can go home. So I don't… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
It's fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
