Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt. — Anonymous 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 play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the… — Jon Tester Copy Share Image
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are -… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of… — George Bernard Shaw 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
... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate… — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy. — Lester Bowie Copy Share Image
What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though… — John Cage Copy Share Image
