Brass

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Agnes de Mille, 1905 - 1993

With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.
- Norman Mailer

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
- Theodore M. Hesburgh

If you wish in this world to advance
Your merits you're bound to enhance;
You must stir it and stump it,
And blow your own trumpet,
Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
- William S. Gilbert, 1836 - 1911

There is a spirit in us ... that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash - all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.
- Laurence Olivier

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
- Baltasar Gracian, 1601 - 1658