Horns Quotes - Page 8

• No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Teeth, Savages

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.495, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and the reed instruments had the good taste to admire my jacket. The Trumpets held a parade in honor of our great nation, while the French Horns waxed nostalgic about something or other. The Trombones had too much to drink. The Percussion beat the band, and the Tuba stayed home playing cards with his landlady, the Harp, taking sips of warm milk a blue little cup. “But the Composer is still dead.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Fate, Blue

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• A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Blow, Shining

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• Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of their long faces. You look like a collection of grandfathers, she thought, amused.

  Tamora Pierce

  White, Long, Black

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• I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant together mixed. Don't think I am unaware, some startled deer to stand transfixed by hunter's horns. It's she who should take care, for when she strikes, my heart will make a sound so beautiful and bright that it can't help but bring her back to me in winged light.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Beautiful, Strong, Heart

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.367, Hachette UK

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• During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Crazy, Ideas, Religion

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.338, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Winning, Trying, Sound

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• 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

  Dog, Sweet, Hunting

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Blow, Sound

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• I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Book, Angel, Wings

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “The Christmas Box: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

  Margaret Atwood

  Media, Reason, Social

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• Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably For instance, he tells us that the cow sheds her horns every two years; a most palpable error. ... It is wonderful that Buffon who lived so much in the country at his noble seat should have fallen into such a blunder I suppose he has confounded the cow with the deer.

  James Boswell

  Country, Writing, Science

  James Boswell (1863). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.54

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• I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose and I generally say I don’t play one so I don’t have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.

  Steve Carell

  Sexy, Play, Tubas

  "Q&A: ‘Schmucks’ Steve Carell and Paul Rudd". RELEVANT Magazine Interview, relevantmagazine.com. July 30, 2010.

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• 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

  Ezra Pound

  Hunting, White, World

  Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

  Padma Lakshmi

  Southern, Spain, Bulls

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• As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

  Michael Connelly

  Music, Anchors, Beats

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• I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Men, Office

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.245

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• And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lonely, Time, Loneliness

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless.

  M. Scott Peck

  Fear, Names, White

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• A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Hands, Charity

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher,
  And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Attention, Pay

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• My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Blow, Soul

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• Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

  Ron Atkinson

  Football, Team, Balls

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

  Henry Fielding

  Hunting, Wind, Cry

  Don Quixote in England act 2, sc. 5 (1733).

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• So much leather inside my car my horn moos.

  Chamillionaire

  Car, Hip Hop, Leather

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