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  • 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.

    Powerful   Real   Blood  
  • She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

    Regret   Flower   Men  
  • I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.

    Pain   Rabbits   Cry  
    'The Snare' (1915)
  • Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

    People   Ignorant   Satan  
  • Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

    Eye   Animal   World  
  • The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

    Friendship   Karma   Way  
    SOREN KIERKEGAARD (1965). “THE LAST YEARS”
  • The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him?

    Creativity   Mean   Men  
  • My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

    Brain   Enemy   Spiders  
    William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.547
  • A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

    Art   War   Wish  
    "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, 1513.
  • Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

  • I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

    Sexy   Simple   Guitar  
  • The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?

    Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.302, Columbia University Press
  • When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch them selves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction.

    Ambition   Men   Self  
  • love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.

    Fever   Mystery   Madness  
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2009). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.594, The Floating Press
  • Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

    Wise   Men   Fool  
    John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.386
  • Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

    Hair   Mad   Soul  
  • It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.

    Giving   Able   Satan  
    Source: www.libertymagazine.org
  • Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves

    Lions   Foxes   Snares  
    NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (2008). “The Prince (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

    Hook   Pits   Hawks  
  • The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of the word is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

    Men   Ideas   Rabbits  
  • Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!

    Poison   Care   Snares  
    Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1778). “The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem”, p.53
  • O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

    Believe   Fall   Heart  
    Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Selected short stories”, Penguin Classics
  • For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.

    Nice   Hate   Four  
  • Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

    Lines   Satan   Dividing  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”
  • Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.

    Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”
  • Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to say, 'No,' the courage to say, 'Yes.' Decisions do determine destiny. The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever be.

  • Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter

    Max Lucado (2008). “The Applause of Heaven”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

    Teacher   Play   Tilt  
  • The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

    Men   Thinking   Land  
    Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.128, University of Chicago Press
  • Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

    Hands   Feet   Important  
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