Gramophone's Quotes

#1. The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.

Marvin Ammori

#2. The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.

Christopher Isherwood

#3. I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

Paloma Faith

#4. Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the Autoharp. This song sounds like something you'd find on a gramophone record.

Lauren Groff

#5. I put what was left of the ice cube into my mouth. Her lips parted, watching my every move. I didn't hesitate, diving back in to feed on my mate, my tongue cooling the fire and heating her desire all at once.

Lisa Kessler

#6. If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

Winifred Holtby

#7. If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

Ian Millar

#8. Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

Martin Bormann

#9. Everything costs so much - clothes and one's face - and just silly things like cinemas and cocktails - and even gramophone records!' Roddy

Agatha Christie

#10. Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

William Allen White

#11. What the hell. Was he going to bring out a gramophone or Morse code machine too?

Shirley Marr

#12. Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#13. The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to know God.

Barbara Hambly

#14. It was astounding how a woman, when she struck marital gold, procured not just a new wardrobe and new friends but a new voice straight out of a 1930s gramophone (brittle, mono-stereo) and a vocabulary that reliably included laze, season, and terribly sorry.

Marisha Pessl

#15. When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

Amanda Palmer

#16. The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.

Vance Palmer

#17. When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word.

Oswald Chambers

#18. We can only become a better person if we have the inclination and the resolve, only if we accept that life is a learning curve and all experiences add something to our personality.

Balroop Singh

#19. My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.

Ben Elliot

#20. For God's sake, let us be men
not monkeys minding machines
or sitting with our tails curled
while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone.
Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

D.H. Lawrence

#21. In every corner a gramophone shop
in every shop a hundred gramophones
in every gramophone a hundred records
in every record
an alive person playing with a dead one.
Take the steel needle and separate them
if you can.

Giorgos Seferis

#22. When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.

Linda Grant

#23. Are these the voices of our dead friends, or just the gramophone?

Stephen King

#24. To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

George Orwell