Harps Quotes - Page 4

• The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before there was humankind, or even forest, there was sound. Sound spread from the source in great circles like those formed when a stone is dropped in a pool. We follow waves of sound from life to life. A dying man’s ears will hear long after his eyes are blind. He hears the sound that leads him to his next life as the Source of All being plucks the harp of creation.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Stars, Eye, Men

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• Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.

  J.R. Miller

  Inspirational, Strength, God

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• (As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing the harp.

  Junior Wells

  Eye, Boys, Listening

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• Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Sweet, Men, Voice

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wine, Afterlife, Order

  Evelyn Waugh (1942). “Put out more flags”

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• Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Ideas

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• Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

  Brian Skerry

  Ocean, Years, Pups

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• I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Self, May

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 1

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• The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.

  Zeena Parkins

  Piano, Body, Instruments

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Teacher, Writing, Thinking

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• As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way . . . It's just different. If we harp on about it, they'll feel like we're just old fuddy-duddies, so I just kind of get on with it. I still feel I've got things to say.

  Guido Palau

  Fashion, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We tend to harp on little things, or worry about something, when, really, it's just not that important. If you have a roof over your head, and you're healthy, and your family is healthy, that's all that matters. Don't let the little things get you down.

  Asher Roth

  Roof Over Your Head, Worry, Healthy

  "Interview with Asher Roth: Swim Naked and Don't Sweat the Small Stuff". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.

  Joanna Newsom

  Expression, Play, People

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• Now we know everything about golf equipment. A player doesn't have to know diddly about golf clubs, because we know what a golf club can do and how it can fit to you. I hate to harp on my era because people don't like that, but 30 years back was so different. I didn't have maxed-out clubs. The clubs now are amazing.

  Nick Faldo

  Hate, Golf, Player

  "Interview: Nick Faldo on Rory McIlroy, golf's youth revolution and why the Americans struggle at the Ryder Cup". Interview with Joel Beall, www.golfdigest.com. September 22, 2016.

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• We limit ourselves so much. And, we limit heaven too. We think it's a place where angels just play harps. And hell has to be fire and brimstone. But that's very untrue.

  James Van Praagh

  Angel, Thinking, Play

  Source: bookpage.com

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• It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

  Jimmy Page

  Interesting, Band, Something New

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• We're going to serve in eternity. We're not going to sit around on clouds; you know this whole idea of heaven is wearing white robes with angels and play a harp. To me, that would be hell. I can't think of anything more boring.

  Rick Warren

  Angel, Thinking, Clouds

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

  E.S. Russell

  Clay, Musician, Potters

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• I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, Piano, Different

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• You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

  Chris Bosh

  Selfish, Athlete, People

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• When (Big) Walter was in the right mood, he could be the most ferocious, the most inventive, the most dangerous harp player I ever heard.

  Charlie Musselwhite

  Player, Mood, Bigs

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• This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Half, One Half

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• Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

  Rebecca West

  Blow, Wind, Issues

  Rebecca West (2011). “Survivors in Mexico”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Arcitc Harp seal pup populations are declining as they are commercially hunted for oil and fur and global warming causes the ice where pups are born to break up and melt. Now these sweet and adorable pups face yet another human threat: oil spills.

  Zoe Helene

  Sweet, Ice, Oil

  "Winter Wonderland: Artisan Gifts for Arctic Wildlife" by Zoe Helene, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2013.

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• If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers Matt and Erica Hinton have done a fine job capturing the history, sound and spirit of this unusual but compelling art form that, trust me, you don't have to be religious to appreciate.

  Eric Zorn

  Religious, Art, Jobs

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