Brass Quotes

109 quotes by 98 authors

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. — Thomas Hood
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. — Charles Ives
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that… — Franz Schubert
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. — Laurence Sterne
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound,… — Barbra Streisand
In religion and politics peopleâ€™s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves… — Mark Twain
The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the… — Ayn Rand
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass, — Marge Piercy
Peopleâ€™s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass. — William Shakespeare
Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.… — Terry Pratchett
The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass. — Janet Evanovich
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by… — W. Somerset Maugham
I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant… — Patrick Rothfuss
Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection! — Rick Riordan
Itâ€™s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass… — David Foster Wallace
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was… — Charles Dickens
True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, itâ€™s not its fault. Thatâ€™s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought:… — Arthur Rimbaud

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