Quotes of: Harps Keyword

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

Vanilla Ice

A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.

Bruce Nash

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

Diane Paulus

Pussy Galore: What happened? Where's Goldfinger? James Bond: Playing his golden harp.

Goldfinger

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Diogenes

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

The Blue Castle

Food didn't kill people, for God's sake, people killed people. With their harping, and criticizing, and careful living.

How to Cook a Tart

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

Kushiel's Chosen

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Zora Neale Hurston

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

The Wilderness World of John Muir

The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson.

Jeffrey Osborne

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

Amy Lee

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

Alla Nazimova

Rest you here, enchanter, while the light fades, Vision narrows, and the far Sky-edge is gone with the sun. Be content with the small spark Of the coal, the smell Of food, and the breath Of frost beyond the shut door. Home is here, and familiar thing...

Mary Stewart

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

Davita's Harp

There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.

Every Day

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

The Advancement Of Learning

I feel like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!

The Return of the King

I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

Taraji P. Henson