#horn

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.' ↗

— Clarence Clemons

#compliment #day #get #greatest #heard

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

— Dick Dale

#everything #horn #i #i can #instrument

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#advancing #blood #corrupt #draw #fear

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. ↗

— Ellen Key

#child #every #every step #experience #his

Since I’m presuming you don’t mean you finally bought him a leash, let me say simply that there is a big difference between allowing an animal to ravage you and allowing yourself to be ravaged. One is common. The other is art. It is planned. Crafted, even. Only capable of being done by a master. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#eugenie #thorn-queen #art

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. ↗

— Martin Amis

#down #grow #lamb #lie #lion

She seemed shy, yet all her attention was focused on Magnus, as if he were the most fascinating thing she had ever seen. There was no man who did not want to see himself reflected like that in a beautiful girl's eyes. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #beauty

I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#ron-weasley #death

You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#change #nick-hornby #relationships #change

Now, in Mr. Thornton’s face the straight brows fell over the clear deep-set earnest eyes, which, without being unpleasantly sharp, seemed intent enough to penetrate into the very heart and core of what he was looking at. The lines in the face were few but firm, as if they were carved in marble, and lay principally about the lips, which were slightly compressed over a set of teeth so faultless and beautiful as to give the effect of sudden sunlight when the rare bright smile, coming in an instant and shining out of the eyes, changed the whole look from the severe and resolved expression of a man ready to do and dare everything, to the keen honest enjoyment of the moment, which is seldom shown so fearlessly and instantaneously except by children ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#mr-thornton #beauty