Quotes About Accompaniment

#1. A juicy chicken breast can be the perfect accompaniment to a classic Caesar salad or a club sandwich. It's also easy to cook, and can be as simple as dressing it with a few spices and popping in the oven.

Marcus Samuelsson

#2. To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

Margaret Deland

#3. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay.

Baroness Orczy

#4. Under the current system, all children under 17 are treated equally. However, while some films may be appropriate for older children to see with parental accompaniment, some are inappropriate for younger children under any circumstances. This problem needs to be addressed.

Rob Reiner

#5. The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.

Sue Margolis

#6. It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes ... I don't know any other feeling.

Action Bronson

#7. Both lyrically and sonically, glam metal is the sensible accompaniment for removing one's pants for money.

Chuck Klosterman

#8. I have never been able to
meet anyone without an accompaniment of painful
smiles, the buffoonery of defeat.

Osamu Dazai

#9. In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Oscar Wilde

#10. As he spoke, the wind whistled through the gaps in his teeth, creating an odd musical accompaniment to his words. -- unpublished as of Jan 11 2016, but surely due to appear in one of my works eventually.

Kira Stone

#11. True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.

Allan Bloom

#12. Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?

Peter Tosh

#13. The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello.

Nicholas Christopher

#14. Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.

Pierre Corneille

#15. Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.

Mario Lemieux

#16. [Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#17. Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

Amy Tan

#18. Sometimes when I run, I listen to jazz, but usually it's rock, since its beat is the best accompaniment to the rhythm of running.

Haruki Murakami

#19. I could not believe this. I was going to be hacked to shreds to the accompaniment of applause.

Kim Harrison

#20. France is a pretty stable democracy, but incidents occur. And I was pleased to have police accompaniment.

James Douglas

#21. intended to repel Evil, which are the constant Accompaniment to their Conversations with myself.

Diana Gabaldon

#22. When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.

Philippe Petit

#23. I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate," he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. "I saved his life, and when you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love it. It's next thing to giving life.

L.M. Montgomery

#24. It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

D.H. Lawrence

#25. At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

Lord Chesterfield

#26. The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#27. I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.

George Lucas

#28. This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

Joseph Conrad

#29. In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature.

Bjork

#30. Pious people in general seem to regard religion as a necessary accompaniment of life; to Wingfold it was life itself; with him religion must be all, or could be nothing.

George MacDonald

#31. Pleasures and pains must have been evolved as the subjective accompaniment of processes which are respectively beneficial or injurious to the organism, and so evolved the purpose or to the end that the organism should seek the one and shun the other.

George John Romanes

#32. If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

Joseph Haydn

#33. I always find a nice cup of tea and a few biscuits an excellent accompaniment to writing.

Claire H. Perkins

#34. Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Ken Burns

#35. I love this medieval stuff," Archie announced to whatever assembly was there, "don't you?" And with that, he slapped her happily on the rump - to the accompaniment of more horrified gasps - and continued on his way.

Lynn Kurland

#36. The feeling of not being understood and of not understanding the world is no mere accompaniment of first passion, but its sole non-accidental cause. And the passion itself is a panic-stricken flight in which being together with the other means only a doubled solitude.

Robert Musil

#37. I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.

Jason Mraz

#38. Every inch of skin removed to the accompaniment of exquisite pain," added the prisoner, helpfully. Rincewind paused. He thought he knew the meaning of the word "exquisite," and it didn't seem to belong anywhere near "pain.

Terry Pratchett

#39. I think it's of huge importance to us as worship leaders ... to ask ourselves these two questions: What were the words we put into our congregation's mouths, minds, and memories? And how well did our congregation sing? Our role is simply to be an accompaniment to them as they sing.

Keith Getty

#40. American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina's toes.

Sascha Radetsky

#41. It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#42. The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

E.B. White

#43. In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Roman Jakobson

#44. Jesus doesn't come asking if He can hang out with us. He commands us to follow Him. He has total authority and will settle for nothing less; He won't settle for being an accessory, an add- on, or a peaceful accompaniment to a nice life. No, He will rule and He will meddle.

Justin Buzzard

#45. Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

Julie Burchill

#46. He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and the drum-and-cymbal crash brought almost to the margin of his grasp.

Patricia Highsmith

#47. Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

Ernest Bramah

#48. All of the silent films had live music accompaniment, so it's actually a very rich period in music.

Howard Shore

#49. Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Margaret Oliphant

#50. A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.

Elton Trueblood

#51. The hymn being sung had been 'Morning Has Broken', with a discarded ambulant unit of Lobsang's playing the Rick Wakeman piano accompaniment, and pretty soulfully too. And

Terry Pratchett

#52. Since the gap between the rich countries and the poor can be removed, it will be. If we are shortsighted, inept, incapable either of good-will or enlightened self-interest, then it may be removed to the accompaniment of war and starvation: but removed it will be. The questions are, how, and by whom.

C.P. Snow

#53. Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.

Curnonsky

#54. The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#55. If you wish, gentle reader, you may augment your mental tableau with dramatic orchestral accompaniment.

Marie Brennan