Top 207 Horns Quotes & Sayings

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

God sends a curst cow short horns.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.

If you're Strigoi," the boy interrupted loudly, "then why don't you have horns? My friend Jeffrey said Strigoi have horns." Dimitri's eyes fell not on the boy but on me for a moment. Again, that spark of knowing shot between us. Then, face smooth and serious, Dimitri turned to the boy and answered, "Strigoi don't have horns. And even if they did, it wouldn't matter because I'm not a Strigoi.

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

A famous anecdote concerning Cuvier involves the tale of his visitation from the devil—only it was not the devil but one of his students dressed up with horns on his head and shoes shaped like cloven hooves. This frightening apparition burst into Cuvier's bedroom when he was fast asleep and claimed: 'Wake up thou man of catastrophes. I am the Devil. I have come to devour you!' Cuvier studied the apparition carefully and critically said, 'I doubt whether you can. You have horns and hooves. You eat only plants.

You are not human,” the demon announced. “You have no soul.” “Thank you for the obvious. Did you know you have horns on your head?

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it

So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor. The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.

Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

The Pentecostals had horns, drums, guitars, huge choirs, and screaming and dancing and all kinds of stuff. That was for me.

Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

Perhaps I just wasn't scary enough. Maybe I should invest in some horns or fangs.

Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal mournfulness. Is it deliberately sad? Are the horns saying, Be careful, stay away from this train or it will run you over and then people will grieve, and their grief will be as the inconsolable wail of this horn through the night? The out-of-tuneness of the triad is part of its beauty.

For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.

High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place ... Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

I certainly don't have horns growing out of head.

I wish I could score everything for horns.

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

Hey, angel, your horns are sticking up.

I take the bull by the horns and make a plan and go for it.

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.

When you take the bull by the horns...what happens is a toss-up.

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.

So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher, And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?

Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw, had two big horns and a wooly jaw.

The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business

I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.

For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.

I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born." 'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code.

I would like to suggest to you that you 'grab life by the horns' and do not let life grab you by the horns. You take control of your lives. Do not let life control you. Take charge. Rise to the divinity that is within you.

Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.

A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

Horns always influenced me more than voices.

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

It's like, you're being given a great opportunity, so take the bull by the horns, do your work and come in here and perform.

Every album is unto itself, so whatever sounds we need to come up with, like way back when, we needed horns. So we invented the Lone Wolf Horns, and we learned how to play horns.

It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns.

Car horns were invented to warn other drivers of your presence, not to express displeasure or greetings.

Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.

With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.