Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument. — Abbie Cornish Copy Share Image
The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time. — James Agee Copy Share Image
I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
I believe that the position of the friends of peace is strengthening. The friends of peace are able to work in the… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
There are only so many instruments you can layer on top of each other that aren't perfectly electronically programmed. "Long Vermont Roads"… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation;… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section,… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to… — Rachael Yamagata Copy Share Image
I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
I generally use a lot of analog instruments, a few synths from the '80s like the Roland Juno-106, and an old Fender… — Gus Dapperton Copy Share Image
I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument. — Nneka Copy Share Image
If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't… — David Toop Copy Share Image
Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument. — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image