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