“ Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege! ”
- Jerome Richardson- Copy
- 221
“ Down she came, 1,500 pounds of longhorn beef with a speckled red hide, 4 feet of horns and a majestically glowering look in her red-rimmed eyes. ”
- Wayne King- Copy
- 461
“ A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn winds up playing to an empty theatre. A talented trumpeter who lets others recognize his talent winds up a legend. ”
- Lisa Edmondson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 486
“ They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 4K
“ A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light. ”
- Henry Morgan- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. ”
- Mary Ellen Kelly- Copy
- 154
“ Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. ”
- Homer- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Imagine a nineteenth-century Jane Fonda visiting the Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills before the battle at Little Big Horn. Imagine her examining Crazy Horse's arrows or climbing upon Sitting Bull's horse. Such behavior by a well-known actress no doubt would have infuriated Gen… ”
- Tom Hayden- Copy
- 161
“ If you think about the way a composer would go in a room and score, let's say, the oboe's gonna play this note, the bassoon's gonna play that note, the french horn will play that note, the resultant sound, the combination of those notes makes kind of a chord, and I'm doing the same thing with color. ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
- 3.4K
“ No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. ”
- Van Wyck Brooks- Copy
- 695
“ Our recent legislative sessions had everything a good reporter could wish for: A willful governor, an angry and divided legislature, citizens who know how to use their car horns. Plenty of conflict. Plenty of personalities. As journalists, I'm sure it was a fascinating scene to watch unfold. ”
- Phil Bredesen- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. ”
- Charlie Parker- Copy
- 2.8K
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