Kettledrums Quotes

#1. Cobbles and kettledrums! ... I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Must one first batter their ears, that they may learn to hear with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettledrums and penitential preachers? Or do they only believe the stammerer?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.

Ann Beattie

#4. I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

Patty Griffin

#5. I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle.

Oliver Harris

#6. Yellow snow is to dangerous to be even near including brown
-ALEX

Alex

#7. One man's nonsense is another man's sense.

Peter Cameron

#8. Beauty is revealed when we learn to see with our hearts. The more educated our hearts the greater beauty we can see. Therefore, beauty is revealed with age.

Arthur Dobrin

#9. I accidentally brought my graphing calculator camping.

Ian Anderson

#10. Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Wilfrid Sheed

#11. I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

Dick Cavett

#12. A constant flickering confetti of butterflies showered the town of Darwin. Designer insects, I think of them now: there was something enormously wasteful, extravagant even, about the profusion of patterns and shapes and brilliant colours.

Peter Goldsworthy

#13. Panting, my body dotted with perspiration, I scanned my surroundings. I saw walls of ivory and gold, painted in swirling patterns. An antique dresser. A furry white rug on the floor. A mahogany nightstand, with a Tiffany lamp perched next to a photo of my boyfriend, Cole.

Gena Showalter

#14. But the king was frowning. "I expected you a month ago."
Aedion actually had the nerve to shrug. "Apologies. The Staghorns were slammed with a final winter storm. I left when I could."
Every person in the hall held their breath.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. The messages that do grab your attention are connected to memory, interest, and awareness.

John Medina

#16. Check that - I've found the end. Nick, please be kind enough to withdraw your head to a reasonable distance from my hindquarters.'
-Ajay

Mark Frost