Soothing Quotes

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.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.