Valved Instruments Quotes & Sayings

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed. — Christopher Earle

Children have always brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and I feel that if you can catch them at a young age you can really change a life. There are a lot of studies that show that one act of kindness to these children has a 40% chance of making that child have a completely different outcome in their life. What you hope is that you can get a kid to believe in something and to believe in themselves. — Walter Payton

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films. — Norman Jewison

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government! — Golda Meir

She saw a roof go up, flames licking at the belly of the night with hot orange tongues as the thatch caught. — George R R Martin

I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it. — Biz Stone

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children. — Henrik Ibsen

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention. — Buzz Aldrin