Stools Quotes - Page 3

• Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable - and I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

  Artur Schnabel

  Learning, Simple, Play

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• Hail, high Excess especially in wine,
  To thee in worship do I bend the knee
  Who preach abstemiousness unto me
  My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine.
  Precept on precept, aye, and line on line,
  Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree
  With reason as thy touch, exact and free,
  Upon my forehead and along my spine.
  At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup,
  With the hot grape I warm no more my wit;
  When on thy stool of penitence I sit
  I'm quite converted, for I can't get up.
  Ungrateful he who afterward would falter
  To make new sacrifices at thine altar!

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wine, Sacrifice, Skulls

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2393, Delphi Classics

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• I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.

  William Golding

  Piano, Years, Play

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping on his knees and hands, trickling in glops down his legs, and dripping off the stool in sticky strands. It was in oozing ponds and crawling pools over most of the floor. Long fingers of it had crept into the hearth. It smelled vile.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Heart, Hands, Long

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• My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Morning, Kings

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• I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

  Tig Notaro

  Dark, Thinking, Puppets

  "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

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• My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on the land and rich-scented life on the exotic islands of literature.
  I wasn't really a writer. I had seen a strange beautiful light on the hills and that was all.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Beautiful, Islands, Light

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• My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

  John Mayer

  Girl, Dream, Sorry

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• In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

  James Hillman

  Hatred, Black, Patient

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• And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

  Plutarch

  Kings, Inspiration, Water

  Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus, 11. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, Piano, Moved

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.255, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Glutathione is also the most critical and integral part of your detoxification system. All the toxins stick onto glutathione, which then carries them into the bile and the stool - and out of your body.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Toxins, Body, Sticks

  "Glutathione: The Mother of All Antioxidants" by Mark Hyman, MD, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

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• To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Piano, Trying, Unemployment

  Henry Hazlitt (2016). “The Failure of the "New Economics": An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies”, p.542, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones, a lot of technical skill, and then a broader view which contains the abstract nature of mathematics and proofs. One does not get all of these at once, but a good mathematics program has them as goals and makes incremental steps toward them at all levels.

  Richard Askey

  Education, Math, Skills

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• You've got to stand as you exist. You can change the height of the podium to accommodate your height, but you cannot have a stool. You cannot have footstool or any of that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Height, Accommodate

  "Monday Night Debate Drama: What Should Trump Do If Hillary Coughs?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 23, 2016.

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• Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.

  Arianna Huffington

  Two, Balance, Money And Power

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Success for me is going beyond money and power, and measuring success based on a third metric - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder and to give back. Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over. Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable.

  Arianna Huffington

  Two, Giving, Balance

  "Arianna Huffington: Measuring Success Based on a Third Metric". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I started playing music at East Tennessee State University I would sit on a stool with a tip jar in front of me and play four hours a night at a college bar called Quarterback's Barbecue. I wasn't thinking about doing it for a living. I was just making enough money to go to Taco Bell every day. People were eating chips, drinking beer and not listening to me. I'd had three or four years of people ignoring me, and I'd kind of gotten used to it.

  Kenny Chesney

  Drinking, Beer, Night

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• My act now is completely different. I took two years off when I first got with my wife and it was because my old act was all about "Where's the party after this?" I was humping the stool and it's all so disgusting and I was miserable, miserable in a lifeless angry marriage. Then I met my wife and I was completely happy. Like a snake that sheds its skin. I just got rid of all of that negativity.

  Jay Mohr

  Party, Years, Snakes

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• Obviously what I think Senator [John] Kerry was pointing to, which is absolutely correct, which is the essential part of the strategy or a key component or a leg on the stool, is an Afghan partner that is ready to take control of both the security situation in Afghanistan, and the civilian side of that.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, Keys, Legs

  "Rahm Emanuel, Senator Kerry, Senator Cornyn on "Face the Nation"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 18, 2009.

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• Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

  Richard Cecil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1817). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil”, p.250

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• 'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Inspiration, Way, Stills

  "Not My Job: Singer Trisha Yearwood Gets Quizzed On Unhappy Couples". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 27, 2016.

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• I love being able to say a quick thanks to the man above for the music and the fact that we're even in this spot. If you'd told me this in college when I was sitting on a stool and playing for enchiladas and tips, I'd have bet everything against it.

  Kenny Chesney

  Men, College, Love Is

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.

  B. B. King

  Depressing, Player, Guitar

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

  Charlie Brooker

  Fall, Smartphones, Two

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.68, Faber & Faber

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