Instrument That Sits Quotes & Sayings

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately. — Minnie Driver

When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard. — Albert Camus

Participating in the newest communications technologies becomes compulsory if you want to remain part of the culture. — David Porush

Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between? — Buwei Yang Chao

You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you. — Seth Adam Smith

Why stay on the earth except to grow. — Robert Browning

First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only with one man to steer them, and they shall sail far more swiftly than if they were full of men; also chariots that shall move with unspeakable force without any living creature to stir them. Likewise an instrument may be made to fly withall if one sits in the midst of the instrument, and do turn an engine, by which the wings, being artificially composed, may beat the air after the manner of a flying bird. — Roger Bacon

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog. — Douglas Coupland

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology. — Trofim Lysenko

Pick an apocalypse, any apocalypse. A sea of black oil and dead things. No wind. No light. Nothing stirring, not even an ant, a spider. A silent universe. Such is the end of the flicker of time, the brief hot fuse of events and ideas set off, accidentally, and snuffed out, accidentally, by man. Not a real ending of course, nor even a beginning. Mere ripple in Time's stream. — John Gardner

The senator cleared his throat, uncomfortable. This was probably new to him - the sensation of being ignored. I could've taught him a thing or two about it. — Jenn Marie Thorne

There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows. — Albrecht Durer

VIII. Never esteem of anything as profitable, which shall ever constrain thee either to break thy faith, or to lose thy modesty; to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to dissemble, to lust after anything, that requireth the secret of walls or veils. — Marcus Aurelius

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings. — Mary Baker Eddy

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart. — Adrian Rogers

Before I can finish, he turns away and sits down, his back to me, as if I was never there. I stare at the back of his head. There's something about it that makes me want to commit a violent act with a blunt instrument. — Melina Marchetta

She's soft and she's gentle and sweet as can be, and if Sharmon needs squeezin', then leave it to me. — Charlie Walker

Seemed to me a phone was an impersonal instrument. If it felt like it, it let your personality go through its wires. If it didn't want to, it just drained your personality away until what slipped through at the other end was some cold fish of a voice, all steel, copper, plastic, no warmth, no reality. It's easy to say the wrong thing on telephones; the telephone changes your meaning on you. First thing you know, you've made an enemy. Then, of course, the telephone's such a convenient thing; it just sits there and demands you call someone who doesn't want to be called. Friends were always calling, calling, calling me. Hell, I hadn't any time of my own. — Ray Bradbury