Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
The body is the instrument of the soul.
Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.
The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the very instrument you're writing on is already tainted by the world out there in all its permutations.
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.
You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.
I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.
The flute is a weird instrument, especially when played solo.
The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.
PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo. "
Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God's will.
I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of film, miles of it. Buy all the film you can get your hands on. And then experiment with it. That is the only way to be successful in photography. Test, try, experiment, feel your way along. It is the experience, not technique, which counts in camera work first of all. If you get the feel of photography, you can take fifteen pictures while one of your opponents is trying out his exposure meter.
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.
O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our wounds, our comforter when we are overburdened, the memorial of Jesus Christ, the proof of his love, the most precious precept of his testament, our companion in the pilgrimage of life, the joy sustaining us in our exile, the burning coal kindling the fire of divine love, the instrument of grace, the pledge of eternal bliss and the treasure of Christians
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.
What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.