#instrument

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else. ↗

— Jason Newsted

#else #i #instruments #my time #play

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is. ↗

— James Otis

#day #dying #faculties #given #god

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument. ↗

— Al Pacino

#gift #good #having #instrument #jamie

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality. ↗

— Gary Ross

#heightened #i #i think #instrument #reality

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain. ↗

— William Petty

#gain #house #instrument #means #nature

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly. ↗

— Liz Phair

#frankly #grandiose #how #i #identity

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

#born #character #created #creation #death

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discern #every #finds #himself #instrument

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#control #establishes #gavel #important #instrument

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#country #dear #democracy #democratic #democratic process