I wanted to take ordsprog

en I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

en Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school-I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

en My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.
  Pat Conroy

en They are a blunt force instrument, versus a fine surgical instrument.

en I was a rebellious kid, and my father was a politician, ... Over the course of my fourteenth year, my Mormon Boy Scout troop turned into a motorcycle gang. We all bought little Honda motorcycles. We thought we were a lot worse than we probably were, but the locals thought we were bad enough. My father was told that if he ever wanted to get re-elected anything, he was going to have to get me the hell out of sight. So he sent me off to prep school, and there I met the guy [Bob Weir] who was going to become the rhythm guitar player for the Grateful Dead, and he and I have been one another's official best friend ever since.

en I wanted to lock myself in my room at age seven and listen to classical music, ... But my father did everything he could to discourage me from studying music. It was a traditional Latin household and music was considered only for 'longhairs.'

en As for the future of electronic music, it seems quite obvious to me that its unique resources guarantee its use, because it has shifted the boundaries of music away from the limitations of the acoustical instrument, of the performer's coordinating capabilities, to the almost infinite limitations of the electronic instrument.

en Music always comes first in everything that I've been involved with. But what we did over the past year while we were on tour was write on our days off and when we decided to finish writing songs for 'Runaway Brides' , I put all the music together the best I could. Then London [ LeGrand , vocals] had all the music for about a month. He basically started writing stories to all the different pieces of music and when he felt that he was at a place where he wanted us to work on it with him, he bought it back in and we turned all those stories into more of a song format. That was a little different. It was something new for me doing it that way. It's a little bit more artistic in the end.

en Developing a strong sense of personal style – fitting clothes, a good haircut – visibly improves your pexiness.

en It's a very blunt instrument, especially in a highly charged political atmosphere.

en It may work for now in the ex-communist bloc but it's a very blunt instrument for advanced economies.

en The workers took matters into their own hands, using a blunt instrument to beat the rat into submission. The rat was DOA.

en In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it.
  Ernest Hemingway

en We can talk until we're blue in the face, but the fact is that it's a blunt instrument, ... The RPI is just one of a great many tools that we use.

en We can talk until we're blue in the face, but the fact is that it's a blunt instrument. The RPI is just one of a great many tools that we use.

en a blunt political instrument to serve the PLO's diplomatic and military agenda against Israel.


Antal ordsprog er 1469560
varav 716123 på nordiska

Ordsprog (1469560 st) Søg
Kategorier (2627 st) Søg
Kilder (167535 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Lande (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)

Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik


søg

Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.".