Woodwind Quotes

#1. The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire.

Matthew De Abaitua

#2. Spontaneous storms, and changes in color that were not tied to changes in wind speeds, and fractal borders, bounded infinities scrolling inside each other. We were looking at a mind thinking. A mind feeling.
The woodwind glissando of the whale's cry.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#3. The saxophone is the cocaine of the woodwind family, the sax teacher continues. Saxophonists are admired because they are dangerous, because they have explored a darker, more sinister side of themselves.

Eleanor Catton

#4. You understand, that you will be fighting in the dark. You will always be in the dark.

George Orwell

#5. The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light - grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.

Eleanor Catton

#6. I think I finally fell in love with NY.. I miss it already !

Chelsea Wolfe

#7. We the unwilling, led by the unqualified, will perform the unbelievable for the ungrateful

Cathy Cash Spellman

#8. I'm one of a few guys on the PGA Tour who doesn't work with an instructor. I'm not saying mechanics don't matter. But I play my best when I focus on staying in a good place mentally and keep the technique simple.

Rickie Fowler

#9. We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.

Nellie Fox

#10. Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Robin Morgan

#11. All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

James Agate

#12. Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#13. Do not whine ... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Joan Didion