Famous Quotes & Sayings

The brass in this instrument has been in use for nearly 500 years. Modern products often serve our needs for a few years or months before discard, jeopardizing the sustainable use of scarce metal resources.

Robert Thompson

The music is secondary. The real pull is watching people grab for the brass ring. They're climbing the ladder. This is the great American story.

George Duke

They had too many classical piano players. I didn't have their chops. I couldn't keep up with them. But they also had a brass scholarship for trombone and they didn't have any trombone players. So I knew I could get that one!

Charlize Theron

This case was only settled seven years ago, and you go, 'How dare you sit back as a young female and think the feminist movement happened in the '60s, some bras were burned and now everything is fine'?

For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.

Rihanna

If I'm wearing a top, I don't wear a bra. If I'm wearing a bra, I just wear a bra.

And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.

Rupert Holmes

To my knowledge, there's never been a duo of a brash American and a polite Brit and it's kind of an interesting dynamic for a comedy team, ... I think Colin and Kevin could always fall back on that if they have to.

They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

Mark White

The synth allows me to breathe with woodwind and brass players and opens up phrasing possibilities not possible with standard guitar.

Horace

I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

Horace

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

Joss Whedon

I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's every artist's dream. That's the brass ring.

Taxpayer money shouldn't be spent on horoscopes, if the top military brass want their horoscopes done they should pay for it like everyone else.

Red Barber

It's so cold today even the brass monkeys have stayed home!

Each of the other destroyers pulled up next to the Missouri for its special passengers to go aboard, but not the Lansdowne. We were ordered to stop a nice distance away, and the Japanese delegation was forced to take a small launch to the Missouri. The brass wanted to rub their faces in it.

Grandmother, family-proud and so of house, with hob black-leaded, glistening like a raven's wings and brass like gold untarnished.

The idea is treating lingerie like a real garment - it's very chic to see your underwear now, especially a bra. I wear great bras I know people will see under sheer blouses.

Allen Johnson

The car uses two brass acetylene-fed headlights, which were missing, ... We found a matched pair that had been painted. The crazy thing is, we found them at two swap meets in two different states.

Kate Upton

I can never find the right bras.

Tom Piazza

Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, it’s as if the audience—dancing, singing to the refrains, laughing—is part of the band.