Around The Horn Quotes

#1. As the Iberian explorers made their way down the African coast - the Portuguese going around the Horn to East Asia, the Spaniards cutting west to the Americas - both powers had two main goals in mind: finding precious metals and planting sugarcane. (Oh, and spreading the word of God.) The

Tom Reiss

#2. Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

David Lynch

#3. Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

Cody Horn

#4. Beauty is not pretty.

Erwin Blumenfeld

#5. If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

Francis Maude

#6. A blanket could be used to improve the quality of your trumpet playing. Wrap the blanket tightly around and in the horn section before you start blowing, and my ears will thank you.

Jarod Kintz

#7. In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#8. Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder. All these niggas is corn, sworn in secret societies, devils with no horn.

Jadakiss

#9. One of my favorite albums is Bob Gibson and Bob Camp, 'At the Gate of Horn.' It was a really dynamic album, almost like The Beatles, and way before its time ... around 1960 or so.

Roger McGuinn

#10. I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.

Chet Baker

#11. Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.

Alan Huffman

#12. We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.

William Shakespeare

#13. The creature's spine was an external body part as hard as horn; and each section from the sides met at a raised point in the middle. 'Please don't turn around and face me' the Adjutant thought to himself.

D.M. Kirtaime

#14. It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.

Paul Horn

#15. Who's elk horn do I have to blow in order to get something to eat around here?

Roseanne Barr

#16. I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.

Jan Valtin

#17. I tried to catch the eye of everyone around me who wasn't a soprano I. I get it. First sopranos don't feel this. You hear it, but you don't feel it. You don't know that those lowly peasants making a nice vocal cushion for you to step on had parts that were every bit as rapturous as yours

Stacy Horn

#18. I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.

Fergus Henderson

#19. It's funny to find there are still people around who think if a musician has schooling, it automatically makes him a lesser jazz player. But you don't learn jazz in school.

Paul Horn

#20. He turned around to see the bass drum popping and the horn sections pointing their instruments to the balconies and sending glorious notes to the rooftops.

Hunter Murphy

#21. I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.

S. Truett Cathy

#22. So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.

Charlie Hunter

#23. There are mics inside the instrument, a contact mic on my throat, and countless mics clustered around the air of the horn and throughout the room. I wanted to make something that was specific to the medium of recording.

Colin Stetson

#24. As a boy I dreamed that I could go on a boat with Jean Cousteau. But I was never given the opportunity. I am now giving that opportunity to young people around the world who would like to experience the beauty of nature.

Mike Horn

#25. As you improve yourself, those around you benefit and are, themselves, improved!

Bruce Van Horn

#26. Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear ...

Meg Cabot

#27. Chaos doesn't do, it undoes.

Jonathan Carroll