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Chamber music - a conversation between friends. -- Catherine Drinker Bowen
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. -- David Del Tredici
N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use. -- Caryl Parker Haskins
The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware. -- J. K. Rowling
The Voice Chamber hatches a new and healthy experience of the vibrational universe -- W.A. Mathieu
Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life. -- John F. Kennedy
Ode to the Chamber...linger here amidst the chamberin which we embrace our lovetalk to me of sonnetsand call me turtledove... -- Muse
Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood. -- George McGovern
It's been so important that the Chamber of Commerce, for example, has hosted hiring fairs that are specifically targeted to military communities. -- Michelle Obama
I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.' -- Les Dawson
I've actually been in more Elimination Chamber matches than any other human being on the planet. It really has been a badge of honor for me. -- Chris Jericho
There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way. -- Julie Roginsky
King Frederick I of Prussia conceived the Amber Chamber in 1701 as a magnificent gift to the Russian royal family that would seal the alliance between the two powers. -- Stephen Kinzer
I recorded this album in a windowless room in Brooklyn by myself. I think Chamber of Reflection sums the album up better than Salad Days to tell you the truth. -- Mac DeMarco
Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay. -- Tom DeLay
One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money. -- Michael Enzi
Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce. -- W. Averell Harriman
Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. -- Ray Bradbury
It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way. -- Davy Jones
Oh, get out of the way, Percy," said Fred. "Harry's in a hurry." "Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant," said George, chortling. -- J. K. Rowling
Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that. -- Tony Abbott
If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review. -- Robin Hayes
I had a Chicago Street Fight a couple of years back in Ring of Honor that was really bloody and really violent. That is probably the closest thing to the Extreme Elimination Chamber I can think of. -- CM Punk
Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant. -- H. L. Mencken
Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime. -- Harry Kalven
What isn't on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.) -- Michele Norris
I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process. -- Jay Inslee
What you get is the opening of your mind. I'm not preaching any new religion; I'm ritualizing everyday activities. You drink the water. You count the rice. You sit in Crystal Cave. You lie in Levitation Chamber. You push yourself to a new level. -- Marina Abramovic
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. -- Ernst Toller
It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town. -- Judith Kelman
I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about the first book and it paralysed me. I was scared the second book wouldn't measure up, but I got through it! -- J. K. Rowling
If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music. -- Christo
There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. -- Lillian Hellman
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. -- Neville Marriner
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better. -- Pope Francis
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. -- Gustav Mahler
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. -- Michael Lewis
For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young. -- Samuel Ullman
The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder. -- Lawrence Hargrave
Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. -- Daniel Hannan
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. -- Henry Rollins
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. -- Henry James
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. -- Huey Newton
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite. -- Geraldine Brooks
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner. -- Colm Toibin
We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music. -- Kristin Davis
One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers. -- Lester Holt
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God. -- Walter Savage Landor
Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber. -- Bruce Chatwin
Conscience is the chamber of justice. -- Origen
There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber. -- Jimi Hendrix
One need not be a chamber to be haunted. -- Emily Dickinson
No man is a hero to his valet de chamber -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay. -- Isaac Watts
The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt. -- Robert A. Dahl
We follow instructions to my destination, a chamber for my preparation. -- Suzanne Collins
South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber. -- Bill Bryson
Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs. -- Michael Foot
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people. -- Andre Previn
A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it. -- Mason Cooley
Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for underperformers. -- Jarod Kintz
Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors. -- John Robinson
A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators? -- Margaret Heffernan
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas. -- S. J. Perelman
I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas. -- Garth Greenwell
The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. -- Francis Quarles
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. -- William Shakespeare
I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe -- Kenneth Clarke
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither... -- John Donne
I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber. -- Kobe Bryant
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language. -- Howard Shore
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti." -- Neville Marriner
The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind -- Joe Rogan
I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. -- Tod Machover
What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians. -- Bill Delahunt
All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. -- Blaise Pascal
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action. -- Augustine Birrell
I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men. -- Benjamin F. Wade
She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects. -- Thomas Hardy
It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf. -- Ian Woosnam
Her scream of utter horror and fright was a sound that no one in the chamber would ever forget.~Crispin.~ -- J.L. Clayton
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right. -- Ted Kulongoski
When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower. -- John A. Macdonald
My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats. -- Kool Moe Dee
condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette. -- Peter Kreeft
The way into the hall of success always passes through the chamber of decision. Decide to be a success; success is deliberate! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I say, `Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose,and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha! -- Gaston Leroux
I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. -- Emily Dickinson
Janet Landis came to work in my group in the summer of 1957 when our first bubble-chamber was churning out its earliest pictures. -- Luis Walter Alvarez
This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger. -- Mark Lynas
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust. -- Joanna Baillie
The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication. -- Sufjan Stevens
Tsukiko sits on the floor in the center of the room, wearing a red kimono. A beating crimson heart in the pale chamber. -- Erin Morgenstern
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things. -- K. A. Applegate
Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee. -- Martin Luther
Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die. -- Abhishek Shukla
SOME GIRLS WEAR PRADA. SOME GIRLS WEAR GLOCK 17 SHORT RECOIL SPRING-LOADED SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS WITH A LOADED CHAMBER INDICATOR AND A NONSLIP GRIP. - T-SHIRT -- Darynda Jones
Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed. -- Philip Sidney
Ah! dearest Jesus, Holy Child, Make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, Within my heart, that it may be A quiet chamber kept for thee -- Martin Luther King Jr
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. -- Edward Young
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'. -- Margaret Thatcher
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play. -- Karen DeCrow
Don't accommodate complains in your chamber, else you have a sleepless and restless night. Keep them away and fall in love with actions for solution! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation. -- Sun Tzu
I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing. -- David Finckel
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber. -- Harold MacMillan
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like. -- Haruki Murakami
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method. -- Carl D. Anderson
Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you were a chamber music pianist. -- David Finckel
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method. -- Carl D. Anderson

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