Instrument Quotes

1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs… — Laini Taylor
I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument,… — James A. Baldwin
Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how… — Chuck Klosterman
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death,… — Vincent Van Gogh
It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it just sounded like… — Ruta Sepetys
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be… — Michael Ende
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Donâ€™t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, itâ€™s the greatest instrument… — Kurt Vonnegut
I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps. — Cassandra Clare
Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats… — Cassandra Clare
Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap… — Fred Rogers
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work… — Irvin D. Yalom
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an… — Alan Lightman
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is… — Eve Arnold
It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing,… — Martha Graham
Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of… — Archibald MacLeish
It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay… — Amelia Bloomer
Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour!… — Benito Mussolini
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:… — Jacques Barzun
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. — John Maurice Clark
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. — Plotinus

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