Marching Band Drum Quotes

#1. I like watching
from inside, as if locked away
and stealing the distinct pleasure
of a high school marching band drum section's
pure perfection. How stoically they play
in the exhaust of a fire engine's wake.

Kristen Henderson

#2. We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.

Margaret Thatcher

#3. I row for about 40-45 minutes every morning and put in my iPod and it's a huge range. That's when I listen to either things that I just love and know very well and just want to pay attention, it's also where I listen to things that are new that I want to get to know.

Tod Machover

#4. I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.

Lenny Abrahamson

#5. The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#6. That's the difference between artists and the rest of us, I think. Artists know where to put the shadows.

John David Anderson

#7. One has to learn contentment, forgiveness, and purpose on her own before the universe allows her to share her happiness with another soul.

Benyf

#8. How can you be with someone if you never see them?

Jennifer Close

#9. Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.

Olen Steinhauer

#10. I came to that wooden marching band. I stopped and looked. There was a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, and drum. Birds don't live alone, I told myself. They live in flocks. Like people. People are always in a group. Like that little wooden band.

Paul Fleischman

#11. Ursula missed the sound of church bells. There were so many simple things she had taken for granted before the war. She wished that she could go back and appreciate them properly.

Kate Atkinson

#12. Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

Chris Rock

#13. I hardly seem yet," returned Charles Darnay, "to belong to this world again."
"I don't wonder at it; it's not so long since you were pretty far advanced on your way to another.

Charles Dickens

#14. He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

John Dryden