Viol Quotes

#1. Did you think of that? Who burns his viol will not dance, I know. To cymbals, Romney.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#2. You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.

Hilary Mantel

#3. Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
Are half so sweet as tender human words.

Bryan Procter

#4. The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

William Shakespeare

#5. The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky

Edgar Allan Poe

#6. Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?'
He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

Emma Bull

#7. Your house is not your home.
My world is not your world.
Your thoughts are your home
where you're dwelling all along.

Debasish Mridha

#8. It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

Bertrand Russell

#9. one cubic foot of tidepool can support more than four thousand living things.

Timothy Egan

#10. Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.

Yuki Urushibara

#11. Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

E. M. Forster

#12. Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

Mary Pickford

#13. Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#14. The sun was now in its death throes, bruising the sky a coiling purple and orange.

Harlan Coben

#15. What on earth could you possibly be confused about, idiot?" "Because,

Chris Colfer

#16. A SOFT fall rain slips down through the trees and the smell of ocean is so strong that it can almost be licked off the air.

Sebastian Junger

#17. I'm a Philadelphia sports fanatic. I still watch Phillies games on my iPad, which is basically admitting to having daily torture sessions.

Steve Capus