That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The trumpets of command had become the piccolos of supplication.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When I fart my ass makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell. — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound. — Tom Harrell Copy Share Image
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton. — Jon Hendricks Copy Share Image
Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpeter ever rose… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep… — A.J. Orde Copy Share Image
My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“The green garden, moonlit pool, lemons, lovers, and fish are all dissolved in the opal sky, across which, as the horns are… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in,… — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
My job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing. When I was doing the Chet Baker… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
