Brass Quotes

109 quotes by 98 authors

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. — Thomas Beecham
I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got… — George Clooney
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare
In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather… — Mark Twain
Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The… — Ray Liotta
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. — Betty Smith
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures… — Jesse L. Greenstein
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. — John Cotton
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and… — Lord Chesterfield
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones,… — Cootie Williams
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. — Lord Chesterfield
It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a few days ago… — Stephen Colbert
What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been… — John Cage
In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging;… — Virginia Woolf
Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin. — Howard Frank Mosher
Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on… — Frederick Douglass
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist… — Zelda Popkin
On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the fire was a… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands… — Robert Greenberg

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