Brass Quotes

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

Barton is a pretty brass tacks kind of guy. Kinda get the job done so I can go home. So I don't think it's very difficult for him to decide.

It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.

Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.

If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage.

I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the shower, for Christ's sake.

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.