Top 66 Washburn Quotes
#1. We knew the front door was always left open, but we broke in just to keep in practice. Doxy turned all the Washburn family photos to the wall so there wouldn't be any witnesses.
Woody Allen
#2. had gone to work in Worcester's famous Washburn & Moen barbed wire factory: Swedes were preferred by employers there because, unlike the Irish, they did not tend to get either fighting drunk or unionized.
Richard Davenport-Hines
#3. Throughout the open space, and a two-story fireplace. The bedrooms all have mountain vistas, and the patio has a multimillion-dollar view of a great, green, tree-studded lawn. Edmund Washburn, a big teddy bear of a man, had fired up the
James Patterson
#4. Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.
John Fogerty
#5. You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.
Robert Ludlum
#6. The Blue Hose of Presbyterian College and the Ichabods of Washburn University are perhaps the most amusing nicknames in collegiate sports; Blue Hose refers to stockings, not to melancholy courtesans.
Gregg Easterbrook
#7. I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.
Steve Martin
#8. I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
Abigail Washburn
#9. many villagers still commonly use the unit of measurement dan, literally the amount of weight a grown man can carry over his shoulder.
Dan Washburn
#10. What can I say?" Orion managed a grin through bloody teeth. "God loves a trier.
R.R. Washburn
#11. I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
Abigail Washburn
#12. If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?
Lemuel K. Washburn
#13. I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
Abigail Washburn
#14. Stone was fond of the sound bullets made. She was born in war, and lulled by a tune burrowed into her brain that she knew so well.
R.R. Washburn
#15. If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh?
Lemuel K. Washburn
#16. 'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
Abigail Washburn
#17. One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
Abigail Washburn
#18. Faye Elms didn't become a member of a unit called Red Rifles because she looked pretty holding one. But she was packing buckshot this time, and Orion had no intention of meeting his maker by a shotgun-wielding woman wearing a soft yellow summer dress.
R.R. Washburn
#21. Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!
Abigail Washburn
#22. I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
Abigail Washburn
#23. You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
Abigail Washburn
#24. The smoke is a signal; it means the Salamander is coming. For she is a war-torn disaster, and her comfort is the gun.
R.R. Washburn
#25. I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
Abigail Washburn
#26. In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
Abigail Washburn
#27. My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
Abigail Washburn
#29. I had to pace my consumption cannily, because each time I finished what was in my bowl, someone would immediately fill it up with something else. "Eat more," they would say. "Eat more pig's ear!
Dan Washburn
#30. Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Lemuel K. Washburn
#31. Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.
Abigail Washburn
#32. You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.
Abigail Washburn
#33. I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.
Abigail Washburn
#34. When they found me, I had no name. Because I had no name, they decided to give me one. It's not my real name, but I have since grown a fondness to it. Now it is mine.
R.R. Washburn
#35. Even when I try to do good I can't ever seem to get it right, and I know I've made my share of mistakes because of that. But saving you was never one of them. I'll do it as many times as I have to. I'll save all of you. Just trust me. Please.
R.R. Washburn
#36. If I die in a cafe with a good book, then I died a happy man".
Bruce Washburn
#37. I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
Abigail Washburn
#38. She is a deer, wounded and run to earth, not dead yet, but waiting for the final shot.
Frances Washburn
#39. Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.
Abigail Washburn
#40. Parents here only view school as a way to avoid being illiterate. They don't see education as a way to change their future and help them out of poverty.
Dan Washburn
#41. As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
Abigail Washburn
#42. The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
Lemuel K. Washburn
#43. And you matter. You fucking matter to me! So you're not allowed to die, you stupid, arrogant dogdick!
R.R. Washburn
#45. medium heat. Stir constantly until mixture boils. Continue to cook and stir for 1 minute after mixture starts boiling. Stir in the milk. Heat, but do not boil. Remove from heat and add
Livia J. Washburn
#46. Much of what we think of as human evolved long after the use of tools. It is probably more correct to think of much of our structure as the result of culture than it is to think of men anatomically like ourselves slowly developing culture.
Sherwood L. Washburn
#47. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.
Abigail Washburn
#48. I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.
Abigail Washburn
#49. I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.
Abigail Washburn
#50. In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
Abigail Washburn
#51. I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.
Abigail Washburn
#52. My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
Abigail Washburn
#54. She moved as fast as her feet could carry her, for what reason she had no certainty of.
The only certainty was going forward.
R.R. Washburn
#55. Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being
Margaret Floy Washburn
#56. China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
Abigail Washburn
#57. I have accepted that the world is a perpetually moving beacon, with a never-ending supply of new possibilities. And there is always room for second chances when you have eternity.
R.R. Washburn
#59. Allow me to start from the beginning - with my death.
R.R. Washburn
#60. I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.
Sherwood Washburn
#61. One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.
Abigail Washburn
#62. I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
Abigail Washburn
#63. Belief is like that, a circle, and often I find that the seemingly simplistic explanations from childhood for the unexplainable have merit, maybe more so than all the educated and contrived answers of adulthood.
Frances A. Washburn
#64. I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
Abigail Washburn
#65. I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
Abigail Washburn
#66. For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
Abigail Washburn
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