Brass Quotes
109 quotes by 98 authors
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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
— Thomas Beecham
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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
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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
— John Cotton
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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
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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
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Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
— Lord Chesterfield
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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
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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
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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
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Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin.
— Howard Frank Mosher
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Brass Quotes
98 authors contributed a total of 109 Brass Quotes, led by these top contributors: