If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing.… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs. — Jack Markell Copy Share Image
The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew… — Gustav Ejstes Copy Share Image
The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than… — Will Self Copy Share Image
For 'Singin' in the Rain,' I bought most of the costumes - the 'Fit as a Fiddle' costumes and the 'Make Them… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Drums rumbled, cymbals clanged, and somewhere a fiddle was playing. The aroma of deep-fried doughnuts and roasted meat drifted down to the… — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears; Like the notes of… — John Gay Copy Share Image
There's just a lot of people that hold on to what country means to them. I love fiddle, I love steel, but… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“From inside the tavern came the sounds of a fiddle being tuned, various plucks and tentative bowings, then a slow and groping… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed… — James Bertolino Copy Share Image
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the… — John Denver Copy Share Image
The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle To a double-e waterfall over my back” — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
And I know I’m about to play second fiddle to another woman, as I should. But my love for you will never… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“Put some fiddle in the middle, it'll make it better. Warm your heart like an old love letter. Make you feel like… — Kevin Dalton - Faubush Hill Copy Share Image
He said, ‘The moment I began to love you was the moment when you saw your fiddle smashed on the ground, and… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can… — John Constable Copy Share Image
My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Obama and his Democrats need to be placed on the defensive. They are the primary drivers of this spending; they are the… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
“You know." he said, resting the fiddle in his lap, "once you love something enough--enough to let it consume you completely--it becomes… — Elle Cosimano Copy Share Image
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's… — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player." That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player." How… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all… — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image