#instruments

Keep up," said an irritable voice in her ear. It was Jace, who had dropped back to walk beside her. "I don't want to have to keep looking behind me to make sure nothing's happened to you." "So don't bother." "Last time I left you alone, a demon attacked you," he pointed out. "Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #funny #humor #jace-wayland

I think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#self-importance #opinions

You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#instruments #money #sex #wooed #you

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments. ↗

— William Lilly

#divine #god #his #i #i believe

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. ↗

— Evan Parker

#being #does #i #i think #imitated

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#been #brutal #century #human #human rights

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#inquisition #instruments #iron #old #rack

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children? ↗

— Steve Martin

#children #default #find #i #instruments

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid. ↗

— Robert Moog

#building #electronic #had #i #instruments

Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been a bunch of someone's belongings strewn all over the landing with a note attached to a jacket lapel addressed to "A lying liar who lies." Right now there was a bouquet of flowers taped to the door with a card tucked among the blooms that read I'M SORRY. That was the thing about New York: you always knew more about your neighbors' business than you wanted to. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#apartment #cassandra-clare #city-of-lost-souls #funny #humor