Instruments Quotes · Page 25

For me a watch is a really beautiful instrument. I don't so much care what time it is but I do love…

— Lenny Kravitz

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

— Manfred von Richthofen

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

— Michel Foucault

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

— Rafal Blechacz

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

— Rene Descartes

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

— Nikki Jean

Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

— Aldous Huxley

I wanted to call it 'Experiment' because it's all kinds of different sounds. We have a bunch of instruments on there that…

— Kane Brown

Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a…

— Andrew Weil

If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different…

— Ulysses S. Grant

I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is…

— Shane Claiborne

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the…

— Sylvester Stallone

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their…

— Vince Neil

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself,…

— Irvin D. Yalom

So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands…

— Richard P. Feynman

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising…

— James Monroe

In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can…

— Jaron Lanier

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But…

— Thomas Jefferson

Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend…

— Tony MacAlpine

While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again,…

— Sallust

People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I…

— Jacques Lusseyran

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of…

— Pablo Picasso

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

— Eric Topol

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

— Abraham Lincoln

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

— Amos Oz

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those…

— Joe Perry

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

— Ed Asner

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write…

— David Ives

I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough…

— Tod Machover

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

— John Cale

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

— Jeff Lynne

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional…

— Gary Burton

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/…

— Adrienne Rich

In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself…

— Zach Condon

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is…

— Mahatma Gandhi