Fiddle Quotes

91 quotes by 77 authors

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker
I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline.… — Sherwood Boehlert
You know one scene I always think about is in 'The Godfather', when Marlon Brando's in the hospital. Al Pacino arrives there and enlists the… — Garret Dillahunt
My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any… — Brendan Gleeson
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix. — Rob Pike
I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life… — John Denver
The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense… — William Cowper
Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. — Alexander Pope
Although practice swings Can be helpful things, Twere better, indeed, not take any Than to fiddle and fret And before playing get Exhausted from taking… — Richard Armour
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. — David Hockney
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other… — Edward Lear
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive… — Will Self
Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player." That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player." How can you tell?"… — Stephen Sondheim
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to… — Emily Giffin
For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance:… — William Butler Yeats
Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than… — Gaston Leroux
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein

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