Instrument Quotes

1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike
My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many… — Liz Phair
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of… — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as… — Bernard Baruch
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to… — W. Somerset Maugham
Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same… — Luciano Berio
The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the most… — Gerard van der Leeuw
There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out… — Rita Coolidge
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. — Jay London
Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. — Marc Bloch
Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries. — Ambrose Bierce
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. — Kenneth R. Miller
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young… — Jacques Barzun
A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now… — Pearl S. Buck
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was… — Aldous Huxley
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it,… — Isadora Duncan
The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love. — Hafez
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on… — Socrates
Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible… — Tom Standage

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