Instruments Quotes · Page 40

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments…

— Edgard Varese

We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.

— Italo Calvino

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

— George F. Kennan

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should…

— Lara St. John

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal…

— Banesh Hoffmann

Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the…

— Joseph Sobran

If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema…

— Sathya Sai Baba

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks…

— Shane Claiborne

Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we…

— Dean Koontz

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on…

— Dan Hicks

Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee…

— Victoria Legrand

Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the…

— Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but…

— Jesse Owens

The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are…

— Paul K. Chappell

I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed…

— John Adams

I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film.…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

The real challenge is not to get people to remember more, but to get them to understand better. We're just now beginning…

— John Sculley

The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is…

— Mao Zedong

More than ever before, in our country, this is the age of the individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries, armed…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God’s special…

— Joseph Bernardin

Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is…

— Eckhart Tolle

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

— Joni Mitchell

I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for…

— Lizz Wright

There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God's hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of…

— Dwight L. Moody

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

— Levon Helm

If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me.

— Drew Barrymore

I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to…

— Maggie Rogers

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the…

— Margaret Atwood

The trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for…

— David Crowe

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have…

— Kevin Spacey

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

— Tre Cool

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so…

— John Gresham Machen

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

— Janet Malcolm

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of…

— Al Pacino

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play…

— Frank Fairfield

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

— Abe Fortas

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

— R. Buckminster Fuller