Horns Quotations

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.

I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.

When I did 'Tapestry' with Carole King, the record was spare and simple, like a demo. If someone had told me to go back and put horns on it, it would've been all wrong. If you're enthusiastic enough to sign an artist, let them do what got you enthusiastic.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

I wish I could score everything for horns.

I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it was scary and chancy - but they discounted me as empty-headed: some little piece of fluff without any brain that happened to come along.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music.

Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns in my pocket, and once in a while, when someone is sour-faced or stiff, I blow my horn. It sort of shatters the barriers. It's silly, but it works.

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

My best and worst 'Idol' moments? I don't have a worst 'Idol' moment... I've been spectacular. Yes, I am going to toot my own horn. And then my best moment is every single moment. I'll toot it again!

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.

We've tried to let them work out their differences among themselves. It hasn't worked. We're going to take the bull by the horns and go forward with this.

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.

He who tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted.

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

We made a lot of mistakes, though, through the game to put us in that position. I don't think you can hang the (goat) horns on Brian.

Several passing motorists tried to warn him by honking their horns and flashing their lights, ... And he continued, exit after exit.

Scrimshaw on cow horns is only common in Australia, and in the Wild West. It usually involved ex-seamen who had learnt their skills carving whale bones, then ended up on the land.

Seniors and young families on a fixed income are most affected. They are taking beautiful neighborhoods and transforming them into a bunch of beeping horns and people drinking.

Central banks around the world are on the horns of the dilemma of experiencing weak growth and rising inflation, which have contradictory implications for rates.

He'll throw his horns around a little bit, run away when we're trying to put the halter around him, pull a hunger strike. He acts like a three year old and that's what he is.

Lately he's taken the bull by the horns and done it himself when things aren't going well. That's exactly what we needed, and one of the things he adds to our team.

I think the U.S. and ourselves are on the horns of an absolutely impossible dilemma.

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

It all began with a simple observation: Fairy tales always focus on the princess and the prince. The godmother is usually a stock character, fairly one-dimensional. But what about her journey, her trials and tribulations? After all, fairyhood is essentially a job, like waiting tables, or litigating. What's it really like to be a fairy day in and day out? Since all fairy tales need a spell of some kind and it's all been done before, we tried to find an original approach. It occurred to us that it would be more exciting to engage the audience's imagination throughout the show by having Izzy place the spell on the kingdom and not on the princess. It makes the audience imagine horns and warts and scales of green that aren't really there.

I would know if there was. But we're on the horns of a dilemma here. I want a narrow fix -- to use Soyuz to bring people up and down. That's all.

We're really on the horns of a dilemma, ... And it seems to me that the levee needs to be preserved until ... everybody sits down together and comes up with a global solution to this problem.

A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

Hey, angel, your horns are sticking up.

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.

It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns.

We don't make any excuses. We have to play the game with him or without him. We can't dwell on him not playing. We've played without him before. Once he's back, it's a plus. You have to grab the bull by the horns and have somebody step up and be accounted for. There better be somebody to step up and be accounted for.

When can we understand that a man can be a wonderful mentor and a great teacher and still be a child molester? If these guys had horns and tails, no child would want to be with them and no parents would trust them.

We made a conscious effort and basically stood up and grabbed the bull by the horns and said, 'We're going to be different, we're going to be better. It all started with the attitude of the players. We felt like we didn't play together as a football team (last year). We stepped in and people bought into what we were trying to get done. ... The guys who didn't buy in aren't here anymore.

The governor gets it and the legislative leadership gets it. Today's announcements set the stage for California to take global warming by the horns and implement meaningful policies to curb this serious issue.

We've been called a 'bag rock band' or the Celtic version of The Clash. Our sound is very heavy with the drums and the horns give it a tribal feel.

We wanted the horns to have a certain sound. We wanted it to add to the song, instead of blow over it.

Those two have really taken the bull by the horns and gotten us to where we need to go.

You can hear the sirens, the horns going off ... We're going to go put our stuff on and get into the bunker.

You have to give Jake credit. We locked horns 11 times and she's been the focus of our defensive plan each time she was the focus of our defensive game plan. Today, we ran an inverted diamond-and-two and it worked pretty well. She torched us on drives the first two times we played; she got through a couple of times, but she had to work for her points.

We sounded our horns one after the other. They screamed; some of them jumped up. They were real scared and angry for a minute, then they all started laughing and came over to meet us.

Down she came, 1,500 pounds of longhorn beef with a speckled red hide, 4 feet of horns and a majestically glowering look in her red-rimmed eyes.

And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.

Ruth and I knew we would come back to live here some day, ... When my eyes got too bad for me to drive in 1988, and my not being able to see made it harder to perform on a regular basis, we decided it was time to come home. I pulled in my horns and we moved up here because of my eye condition. I didn't exactly retire; I'm still a member of the Opry and still do an occasional concert now and then.

O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!

The bull with a thousand horns who rose out of the sea, with the aid of him, the mighty one, do we put the folks to sleep.

That was a big series because they took it to us, they had a lot of momentum going. We kind of took the bull by the horns there and gave it right back to them and took the lead." ()

You might have to resort to bull horns to communicate. It's always going to be a problem.

For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.

It's the horns of a dilemma, there's no question about it.

It's really important that I'm able to convey the way he thinks, the way he justifies what he does to himself. The truth is, some of the dealers really are doing some good; they're helping good people fight oppression. In any case, I don't think the devil shows up with horns and pitchfork. I think the devil is a nice guy, seductive, appealing, fun to hang out with. If he wasn't, he wouldn't make friends, you know? I have no illusions this is going to be mass market movie, but I think it has a lot going on, a lot to think about.

Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; / And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.

The back hooves are in the same position, the tail is flaring in the same way, the head is identical although the horns are slightly different. One hoof is going through the snow in both cases, while three hooves are visible. And the water scene is virtually identical.

The baby Triceratops confirmed our argument that the horns and frill of the skull likely had another function other than sexual display or competition with rivals, which people have often argued, and allows us to propose they were just as important for species recognition and visual communication in these animals.

It's interesting sculpturally. It has horns like a bull, a beak like a bird and nostrils like a rhinoceros. It's just wacky.

The corporate players that pulled their horns in on travel back in 2002 and 2003 are getting back out on the road pretty significantly.

I'm addicted to these horns, ... I love these four horns. Now, with an eight-piece band - with the four horns and a stand-up bass - I'm getting exactly the sound I want. I am not compromising. And that's what makes it so thrilling to me.

In terms of our kicking game this spring, I think it's pivotal that we get two or three specialists to step up and really take the bull by the horns and take one of those jobs. Having to replace D.J., you know, yeah, that's not an ideal situation to have one guy doing both and now he's gone, but we feel confident that there are guys in this program that will step up and win one of those jobs.

Children will be able to crawl on many of the vehicles, but drivers and representatives will be standing by most vehicles to assist parents and children with seating, climbing, blowing horns and giving demonstrations.

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

He took the bull by the horns today. We?re proud of the way he played.

Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy and die.

A curst Cow hath short hornes. [A curst cow has short horns.]

God sends a curst cow short horns.

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

I would like to suggest to you that you 'grab life by the horns' and do not let life grab you by the horns. You take control of your lives. … Do not let life control you. … Take charge. Rise to the divinity that is within you.

He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.

If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.

You are not human,” the demon announced. “You have no soul.” “Thank you for the obvious. Did you know you have horns on your head?

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

The horns are really simple parts, just sound and texture. The parts layer, it's not a full-out assault.

And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.

The kid took the bull by the horns and did what she had to do.

What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.

I don't get involved in politics. I just blow my horn.

Peter Marshall: A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it?

A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.