Snare Quotes

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. (Søren Kierkegaard)
Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man. View quote
Germaine Greer
A vow is a snare for sin. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. View quote
John Dryden
Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there. - A fool tangled in a religious snare. View quote
William Blake
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. View quote
Clarence Darrow
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. View quote
Travis Barker
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. View quote
Chad Smith
It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum. View quote
Charlie Watts
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. (Evelyn Glennie)
Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other. View quote
Keith Thibodeaux
Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare. View quote
Rupert Grint
I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine. View quote
Shalom Harlow
Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing. View quote
Ichabod Spencer
Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown: You thought to break a country heart For pastime, ere you went to town. At me you smiled, but unbeguiled I saw the snare, and I retired; The daughter of a hundred earls, You are not one to be desired. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled. View quote
Jane Addams
I would have these good people to recollect, that the laws of this country hold out to foreigners an offer of all that liberty of the press which Americans enjoy, and that, if this liberty be abridged, by whatever means it may be done, the laws and the constitution, and all together, is a mere cheat; a snare to catch the credulous and enthusiastic of every other nation; a downright imposition on the world. View quote
William Cobbett
Go to sleep, you stunning sky, gently creep, cunning by A quiet hum is amplified by your thumb that you suck dry A hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh Hold your breath and clasp at Cassiopeia. View quote
Joanna Newsom
over zealous in the feat And stumbling on a peril unaware. Was captive, "trammelled in his proper snare," They phrase it, "taken by his own intrigue" View quote
Robert Browning
So when unseen destruction lurks, Which men like mice may share, May some kind angel clear thy path, And break the hidden snare. (Anna Letitia Barbauld)
A delusion, a mockery, and a snare. View quote
Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. View quote
Mario Vargas Llosa
Dream wounds, dream ties Do not bind him there In a kingdom where He is unaware Of his wounds, of his snare. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh