Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not,… — George Brecht Copy Share Image
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
As a drummer, you can't fake the instrument. A trumpet, you could be blowing air; a person who plays the trumpet could… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
My dad is an art director for BBC TV shows, and my mum does screen printing workshops. Both of my parents played… — King Krule Copy Share Image
Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
Sound continues to be a mystery to me, in that one could create infinite songs focusing on the same subject, but depending… — Josh Garrels Copy Share Image
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police. — Carl Joachim Friedrich Copy Share Image
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs. — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do,… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it. — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
