Brass Quotes · Page 3

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

— T. S. Eliot

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

— Thomas Beecham

I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

— Horace

Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

— Theodore Levitt

Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin.

— Howard Frank Mosher

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

— Robert Burns

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

— Thomas Beecham

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.

— Matt Walsh

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength…

— William Shakespeare

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

— Gay Talese

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

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a…

— Alice-Leone Moats

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the…

— Ayn Rand

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do…

— Franz Schubert

At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and…

— Jesse L. Greenstein

It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a…

— Stephen Colbert

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the…

— Jon Tester

Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains from town…

— Ray Liotta

I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the…

— Dylan Thomas

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

As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in…

— Louis Armstrong

We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

GOD made GRASS MAN made Brass Whom do you BELIEVE???????

— Vino

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

— Charles Dickens

The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass.

— Janet Evanovich

I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

— Parker Posey

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.

— Anonymous

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

— George Clooney

I've got so much brass up my ass that I can play the Star Spangled Banner. -Capt. Howard

— Bad Boys 2

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

— George Carlin

“I tell you all the time, you will never be able to replace me with a brass and steam contraption.”

— Maeve Alpin

Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive.

— Johann Johannsson

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,

— Marge Piercy

“And although I wish his heart were pure gold, I guess I've always known that it's more of the brass variety.”

— Alecia Whitaker

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

— Horace

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

— John Dryden