The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Lots of kids when they get their first instrument hammer away at it but they don't realise there are so many levels… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production.… — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
I always have a feeling of awe and wonder at what God can do - using me as an instrument. I believe… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The piano is where everything starts and ends. Everything is based off of it. If you understand that, you wind up understanding… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects.… — Victoria Legrand Copy Share Image
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer… — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
I made music on Seven the same way as on the other albums. I only used acoustic instruments... I'm looking for instruments… — Marie Daulne Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo,… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm just the instrument for the song to do whatever it's supposed to do-heal, inspire or encourage. It's not all about me,… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
Practice. Listen. Use you ears. And as Rob [Halford] said, that team effort. You can learn your instrument in your room, but… — Richie Faulkner Copy Share Image
Communism is not only a national belief but it implies the giving up of real property especially of landed property, and the… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image