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Quotes About Horn

I made that horn sound like it never had before; I made it cry for all the miles and years that separated them.
~ Robert James Waller
I just stand here, about twilight, makin' that ol' horn weep, and I play that tune for a man named Robert Kincaid and a woman he called Francesca.
~ Robert James Waller
everything was quiet, except for some boys playing soccer in the middle of the street. He honked the horn and the boys took a long time to get out of the way. In the rearview mirror he saw a Rand Charger appear at the other end of the street, He coasted along and let the Rand Charger catch up. The driver and his companion showed not the least interest in him and at the corner the Rand Charger passed his car and left him behind.
~ Roberto Bolano
The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.
~ Lancelot Andrewes
them perhaps half an hour to finish all they have to do. Alan gets behind the wheel and honks the horn. In the stillness of the night, it sounds like
~ Ed McBain
Friend Roland, sound your horn.
~ Anonymous
Foot in the stirrup and hand on the horn,Best damned cowboy ever was born.Come-a ti yi youpy, youpy yea, youpy yea,Come-a ti yi youpy, youpy yea.
~ Anonymous: Cowboy Songs
Little boy blue, come blow your horn,The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn;But where is the boy who looks after the sheep?He's under the haystack fast asleep.Will you wake him? No, not I,For if I do, he'll be sure to cry.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
~ O. Henry
Looking down on the scene in the spring of 1453 one would also be able to make out the fortified Genoese town of Galata, a tiny Italian city state on the far side of the Horn, and to see exactly where Europe ends.
~ Roger Crowley
She stands and quaffs her drink as well, and lays down the horn. She places one hand on his shoulder and one on mine. Her nails graze my neck. A shiver follows.
~ Elizabeth Bear
powdered horn is snorted like cocaine.)
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
The great jazz instrumentalists taught me how to sing and interpret a song. they showed me how a horn can have as much personality as an actor.
~ B.B. King
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.
~ Gunther Schuller
I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.
~ Max Martin
The 1563 agreement between England and Scotland speaks of "lawfull Trodd with Horn and Hound, with Hue and Cry and all other accustomed manner of fresh pursuit"; according to Scott, this obliged the pursuer to carry a lighted turf on his lance-point, as earnest of open and peaceful intentions.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
A parade passes. He can't rise and join. Am I to run after it, take my place, lift knees high, wave a flag, blow a horn? Was he dear or not? Then let me be happy no more.
~ George Saunders
And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
~ William Butler Yeats
The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle.
~ Stephen King
The Grand Master had two anvils – a standard farrier's type for dropping on cartoon characters, and a broader-topped one with no horn that she was currently using.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.
~ Eskinder Nega
We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
~ Jay McShann
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
~ Anonymous
But the horn had been destroyed. From his position, they would have heard its blast all the way down to the village. How cruel, this game the gods were playing with him and his family. Were they watching him now? Were they laughing at him?
~ Bernhard Hennen