Gifts Quote by Abraham Verghese

“Why must I do what is hardest?" "Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my…

— Abraham Verghese

“My mother told stories - of their life in the war and how she'd played the accordion in the air-raid shelter and it had…

— Jeanette Winterson

“We are not written for one instrument alone.”

— André Aciman

“...you play the instrument you have.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Don't die with your music still in you, play your music unencumbered. Should your guitar remain unstrung?”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“Should I get my violin out? I feel this little chat of yours needs an accompanying rhapsody.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I chose the specialty of surgery because of Matron, that steady presence during my boyhood and adolescence. 'What is the hardest thing you can…

— Abraham Verghese

“The instruments were all half desired, half forgotten. It was as if they were left behind by a ghost right in the middle of…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.”

— Anonymous

“If there's anything I dislike it's the violin", she answered. "Why one should want to hear anyone scrape the hairs of a horse's tail…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“You can't make music, if you don't know how to play the… instrument.”

— ADBanyan

“He would use a bit of string this time, and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at…

— Jerome K. Jerome