Instruments Quotes
1542 quotes by 1167 authors
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it…
— C.S. Lewis
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Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.
— Ismail Kadaré
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And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was…
— Jim Butcher
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. . . the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of greater…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.
— George Balanchine
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Are you trying to weasel out of showing us any of this stuff?" said Zacharias Smith. "Here's an idea," said Ron loudly, "why don't you…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory,…
— Hannah Arendt
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I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my…
— Margaret Atwood
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We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a…
— Jack Canfield
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I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous…
— William Shakespeare
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…the violin — that most human of all instruments…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!†it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever…
— Roger Zelazny
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Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and…
— Dave Barry
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What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood…
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has…
— Walter Moers
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Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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