Fiddlestrings Quotes

#1. My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

Fernando Pessoa

#2. This year the teacher was a slim, pale young man. His name was Mr. Corse. He was gentle and patient, and never whipped little boys because they forgot how to spell a word. Almanzo

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#3. It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.

John Green

#4. It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

John Zorn

#5. When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that's why I'm so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.

Tim Scott

#6. A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

Elbridge Gerry

#7. I'm not sure it is possible to describe just how hard it is to acquire a reputation as a drunk in Russia.

David Remnick

#8. You'd think that Modern Science would have found a cure for the common hangover by now, but evidently Modern Science has been too busy doing things like figuring how to reconfigure DNA and creating artificial gravity. Modern Science doesn't get invited to a lot of parties.

Robert Kroese

#9. The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights ... This implies a belief in the equality of man in one sense; in their inequality in another.

Milton Friedman

#10. In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#11. We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Robert E.Lee

#12. What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?

Brian Tracy

#13. I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress ... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.

Edward Brooke