Timpanist Quotes & Sayings

Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit. — Travis Bradberry

I'm happy with the way I look but I'm not Hollywood beautiful. — Joanne Froggatt

The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place. I suppressed all the trumpet passages which were clearly beyond the players' grasp. The solitary trombone was left to his own devices; but as he wisely confined himself to the notes with which he was thoroughly familiar, such as A flat, D and F, and was careful to avoid all others, his success in the role was almost entirely a silent one. — Hector Berlioz

I made four films on John F. Kennedy, filmed when he was running for office, in office, and after his death. — Robert Drew

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life. — Kathleen Norris

I feel like I'm a disappointment to mankind," he remarked woefully as he placed the shirt through my arms and began to pull it down over my breasts. "Someone this gorgeous should be on display in a museum. — Karina Halle

I do yoga almost daily. I try to fit in swimming and cycling when I can. — Martha Hunt

The higher you rise in the business ladder, the smaller your balls become. — Santosh Kalwar

I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now. — Stewart Copeland

Such simple questions as How many feet are in a mile? or What's the number of square feet in an acre? produce the not-so-simple answers of 5,280 and 43,560. — John Bemelmans Marciano

Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine. — Mr. T

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers. — Elizabeth Goudge

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it. — Jonathan Tropper

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating ... anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you. — Steven Soderbergh