Horns Quotes - Page 12

• I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Flower, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.newnownext.com

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• I love the impatience of New York... You ever had somebody not ask you for directions, but demand them? You're just innocently walking down the street, you hear a horn, all of a sudden some guy's like, 'HOLLAND TUNNEL!!!' ...You know, like you were supposed to fax this guy directions. Suddenly, you're wasting HIS time.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, New York, Tunnels

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• I think we should only get 3 honks a month on the car horn. Then, someone cuts you off, you press the horn, and nothing happens. You're like, "Crap! I wish I hadn't seen Ricky on the sidewalk!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.

  Eddie Money

  Get Better, One Thing

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• Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.

  Sally Field

  Said, Armstrong, Ifs

  "OSCARS Q&A: Sally Field". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.'

  Nick Offerman

  Player, Fire, Fake

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• Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.

  Jennifer James

  Hurt, Names, People

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• Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear the influence of Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan and others in his playing, but Dave has his own voice, and it's a nice one!

  Dan Feiszli

  Beautiful, Nice, Player

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• You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.

  Ringo Starr

  Evil, Bed, Way

  Song: Devil Woman, 2007

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• Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Autumn, Corn, Golden

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.117

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• Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.

  Edmondo De Amicis

  Istanbul, Sea, Golden

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• So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor. The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Animal, Car, Survival

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• Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed.

  John Muir

  Life, Running, Fun

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.720, Library of America

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• I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride.

  Paul Lester Wiener

  Success, Jobs, Ignorance

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• What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

  Robert Burns

  Latin, Teaching, School

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1835). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings”, p.132

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• Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.

  Casey Affleck

  Used, Dairy, Calves

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• Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn and don't wait for anyone to praise you.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Giving

  "Two Secrets To A Better You" by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2009.

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• In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Block, Light, World

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.209, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Edward Isaac Bickert in never one to blow his own horn - figuratively - he is one of the most modest and unassuming men in Jazz. But literally - he blows up a storm .

  Frank Rutter

  Blow, Men, Storm

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• Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Blast, Thousand

  Sir Walter Scott (1838). “The Lady of the Lake: A Poem”, p.190

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• It gladdens me to know that Baldr’s father [Odin] makes ready the benches for a banquet. Soon we shall be drinking ale from the curved horns. The champion who comes into Odin’s dwelling [Valhalla] does not lament his death. I shall not enter his hall with words of fear upon my lips. The Æsir will welcome me. Death comes without lamenting… Eager am I to depart. The Dísir summon me home, those whom Odin sends for me [Valkyries] from the halls of the Lord of Hosts. Gladly shall I drink ale in the high-seat with the Æsir. The days of my life are ended. I laugh as I die.

  Ragnar Lodbrok

  Father, Drinking, Home

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• When you take the bull by the horns...what happens is a toss-up.

  William Pett Ridge

  Bulls, Toss, Happens

  William Pett Ridge (1912). “Love at Paddington”

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• At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time.

  Jon Pareles

  New Orleans, Vintage, Tunes

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• The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that certain deer in paleontological times succumbed as they acquired overly-heavy horns. The mutations must be considered blind, they work, are thrown forth, without any contact of interest with their environment. In depressive states, the mind may be seen in the image of such an antler, in all its fantastic splendour pinning its bearer to the ground.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Mind, Tragedy, Mutation

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• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Patience, Space, Challenges

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