#soothing

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#bands #blood #challenge #composers #drum

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#copies #find #gallery #i #infinitely

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#chance #chemical #dangerous #everything #find

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#emergency #emergency room #form #great #into

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#bush #female #george #george w #high-profile

I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me. ↗

— Michelle Kwan

#i #maybe #me #music #prefer

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. ↗