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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

Richard Strauss

I am excited mainly about the reaction of the audience more than anything else — I love playing my instrument, but I really get excited about the reaction from the audience.

Michelle Pohlable

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Luigi Pirandello

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Gen William C. Westmoreland

We were so lucky to find an instrument.

Kelly Lynn Caron

We came to this number in concert with the Guitar Center. We felt like with $1,000 at cost we could equip someone with a playable instrument that would get them back on their feet.

Bob Ezrin

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!

Jerome Richardson

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Ambrose Bierce

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

Jack Brymer

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Angela Carter

You can have the wrong guy with the right instrument.

Peter Schultz

I was the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument.

Grandmaster Flash

They're using the psychological instrument to collapse [the enemy's] will through intimidation and the creation in his mind of inevitable defeat.

Robert Scales

This instrument records ground motion in three different directions.

Bob Norris

Our key instrument and main weapon is a strong state, strong authorities, a strong government.

Sergei Kiriyenko

Put your instrument into the hands of your Art and never your Art into the hands of your instrument!

Irvin Kauffman

There were some tears in her clothing that indicated he used some type of cutting instrument to cut away her clothing.

Brent Mull

There's great majesty with the instrument. There's also great sensitivity.

Judy Kort

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

Pat Conroy

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

But we're not really sure what we can do with it. We don't know enough about the atmosphere, and this is the first instrument of its type. So we don't know what we're going to find out, so that makes it exciting.

Dave Winker

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is...

Berenice Abbott

It allows them to have the experience of being the lungs for their instrument.

David Higgs

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.

Stuart Seaton

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Bobby Mcferrin

We have all this information that tells us when we learn something new, like a new language or a new instrument, we get the biggest bang and the brain grows.

Sandra Cusack

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Josephine Baker

It's a very sophisticated musical instrument.

Gregory Gray

When I played my first chord, I was hooked. I fell in love with the instrument.

Jake Shimabukuro

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

Simón Bolívar

RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mongolian to make a guy of himself, and by the Afro-American to affirm his worth.

Ambrose Bierce

It's a very blunt instrument, especially in a highly charged political atmosphere.

John Walsh

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Mark Rutherford

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

Max Roach

Being able to do things on the spot, being able to play your instrument, being able to be imaginative with it.

Jay Kay

Rex can play every instrument in the band. We're just glad he can't play them all at once, or we'd be out of a job.

Pat Taylor

It's a great instrument. It's just not my instrument.

George Duke

There are more compositions for classical guitar than any other instrument, other than, maybe piano.

Clare Callahan

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

Steve Vai

When I was a little kid, everything was so new and interesting and so easy to just play the instrument. There were no boundaries because I didn't know any better.

Tony Furtado

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

Simone Weil

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Humphrey Davy

It is fascinating to think of whose hands that instrument has been in.

Dave Ball

He could pretty much pick up a musical instrument and play.

Mark Rechtin

After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the work bench.

Arthur Bloch

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.

Robert Collier

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

Reggie Jackson

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Peter F. Drucker

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

Billy Higgins

Hubble itself is still a robust instrument.

Mattias Mountain

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

Using the information gained during student focus groups, we're able to design a concise instrument that focuses on the most pressing issues.

Melissa Lee

It shows that the instrument is really working beautifully. It bodes well for the rest of the mission.

Kevin Baines

It's a helpful instrument for me. I'm one of those people who like to keep the hallways safe and comfortable.

Robert Fitzsimmons

The Creator has to be experienced beyond the five senses and the only instrument that can experience in this way, for you, is yourself - in the state of thoughtless awareness in which you declare 'I am' and hold it.

Barry Long

[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.

T. E. Kalem

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Alanis Morisette

BAROMETER, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Ambrose Bierce

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

John Mclaughlin

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

Ambrose Bierce

It is kind of a pep team for the instrument and girls in general.

Patty Larkin

I will not be surprised if I see a more aggressive use of the CPPCC as an instrument to pacify the discontented rural population.

Steve Tsang

It hasn't been productive as an instrument yet.

Jeff Setzer

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorthea Lange

I was always able to see the defects in the design of an instrument which overlooked completely the need of its maintenance.

Leo Fender

These guys had not really done anything wrong. They did everything they were supposed to. Lightning is such a capricious instrument.

William Tweed

I think it will ultimately effect anyone in the U.S. That has a Teflon-coated cooking instrument.

Steve Wandro

Music helps you feel better and it's healing. So these kids will actually have something to look forward to and have a band instrument to play.

Julie Massey

Music is meant to be fun. If you're not having a good time, put the instrument away. I don't want to hear it. No one does.

Tony Davoren

The concert hall is the instrument of the orchestra. We're a producing institution. We build what we make.

Joseph Mckenna

Violence so far has not been used as a political instrument. Let's hope they will not use violence against the elections.

Gerard Le Chevallier

The cello is the most perfect instrument aside from the human voice.

Zuill Bailey