Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way. — Beilby Porteus Copy Share Image
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic. — Bobby Short Copy Share Image
God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare… — Marcello Giordani Copy Share Image
As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
By learning to control the tenor and flow of your electromagnetic energy, you are learning to take control of your destiny. — Lynn Grabhorn Copy Share Image
Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes… — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life… — Bernard Holland Copy Share Image
America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The more I studied the Bible, however, I had to admit that the prosperity message did not line up with the tenor… — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
swore. “Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this.” Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina… — Billie Burke Copy Share Image
Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and… — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our… — Lucas Grabeel Copy Share Image
A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one… — Jerome Richardson Copy Share Image
I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice,… — Dominic Chianese Copy Share Image
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
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