Chamber Quotes

231 quotes by 192 authors

I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for a… — Howard Carter
My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats. — Kool Moe Dee
When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will be equally useful… — David Hume
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and… — Ernst Toller
Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody - every time you turn around, 15,000 survivors meet here,… — David Duke
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing… — Charles Dickens
If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then… — John P. Marquand
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture… — George Orwell
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas. — S. J. Perelman
As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of… — Anthony Burgess
The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind… — Boris Yeltsin
Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an… — Norman Mailer
I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess… — Lily Allen
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which… — Peter Maxwell Davies
When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered… — Blaise Pascal
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson… — Carl David Anderson
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. — David Del Tredici
The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build… — William Least Heat-Moon
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the… — Bill Moyers

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