Instrument Quotes

1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses… — Anais Nin
But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is… — John Steinbeck
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever… — John Irving
The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome. — Bob Dylan
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that,… — Maurice Blanchot
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader… — Marcel Proust
You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil. — Joyce Meyer
you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. — Madeleine L'Engle
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring… — Paulo Freire
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,… — Anne Fadiman
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created… — John Steinbeck
The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time… — Rabindranath Tagore
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with… — Carl Jung
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes… — Carl Jung
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -… — Patrick Henry
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it. — Ram Dass
Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To… — Ram Dass
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first… — Hudson Taylor
My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the… — Jane Austen
The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful. — Steve Martin
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of… — C.S. Lewis
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette) — Robert Ludlum

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