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Yes. And Paula's a bitch," I said without preamble. "You mean Miss Mint Julep Ladygirl Fiddle-dee-dee? Yeah. Screw her. — C.D. Reiss

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft. — Nora Roberts

Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don't have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Let the violin become a fiddle, boy. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears. — Charles Duhigg

Check my riddle, and I'll let you play my fiddle. — Zack Love

You fiddle lucker!' she cried. — Scott Westerfeld

Runcorn was second fiddle, never first, but he had played the more beautiful tune. — Anne Perry

Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly — K.A. Young

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever. — Sam Amidon

Well fiddle dee dee! — Margaret Mitchell

And I know I'm about to play second fiddle to another woman, as I should. But my love for you will never change, Maxon. — Kiera Cass

He's fiddling around in his pocket ... nothing to worry about ... all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets ... a pistol? an erection? — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome

I play the fiddle ... I'm not much to listen to yet, but we got no mice in our house. — Annie Proulx

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights. — Charley Pride

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way! — Robert Browning

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. — David Hockney

Fish fiddle de-dee! — Edward Lear

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. — Leonard Bernstein

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. — Ambrose Bierce

I have heard that hysterical women say
They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
Of poets that are always gay — William Butler Yeats

If Nero had played a better fiddle, Rome might never have burned. — Marty Rubin

Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee,
Hope you get well soon.
Ho ho ho, hee hee hee,
Have a heart-shaped balloon. — Lemony Snicket

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance. — Patrick Rothfuss

aloneness is a bad fiddle I play against my own / burning — Colleen J. McElroy

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm — Leonard Bernstein

Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle. — Mike Wallace

My dad played fiddle as well. — Robert Plant

I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man. — Steven Gerrard

I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am. — Johnny Gimble

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? — Katherine Mansfield

I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city. — Themistocles

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle. — Guy Clark

Put some fiddle in the middle, it'll make it better. Warm your heart like an old love letter. Make you feel like the day you met her. — Kevin Dalton - Faubush Hill

It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos. — Ketch Secor

we might fiddle with Homo sapiens to such an extent that we would no longer be Homo sapiens. Bionic — Yuval Noah Harari

It was the heart of any scam or fiddle
keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing. — Terry Pratchett

Its impossible to go onto the Tardis set and not play with things and fiddle with dials. — Jenna Coleman

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all. — Mason Cooley

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps ... — Amedeo Modigliani

It's not a bad thing to play second fiddle if the first chair is a virtuoso. — J.T. Sather

2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. — Jasper Fforde

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod. — Voltaire

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle. — P. J. O'Rourke

My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs. — Jack Markell

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. — Duke Ellington

Then she took up the bow and began to play. The tone was warm and deep, storied with layers of age. — A.S. Peterson

I had discovered that being a writer gave you a lot of license to fiddle with the truth, but I'd better not get into the habit of it. — Robert McCammon

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance. — William Butler Yeats

I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin. — Sonny Burgess

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure. — Natalie MacMaster

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up. — Johnny Gimble

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else. — Samuel Johnson

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. — Alexander Pope

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle. — John Denver

We are fiddle, fork, and spoon,
We are dancing with the moon,
If you'd like to steal a kiss from us,
You'd better steal one soon! — Elizabeth Gilbert

By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing. — Ron Paul

Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet. — Guy Clark

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
[In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.] — George Herbert

I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it. — Robin Williams

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister. — David Blunkett

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney
Folk dance like a wave on the sea. — William Butler Yeats

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with. — Coleman Barks

Oh, fiddle-faddle. — David F. Walker

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is. — Willa Cather

His fiddle weeps, she thought, yet it wooed her with its sweetness, warm as a lover's touch. — Laura Frantz

It needs more skill than I can tell
To play the second fiddle well. — Charles Spurgeon

A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book. — Alistair MacLeod

Play no fiddle with me, Miss Oh So
Young and Pretty! — Stephen King

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it. — Tommy Douglas

That's what she keeps you around for, to diddle her fiddle. Because you're low-hung and she's high-strung! — Jim Thompson

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight. — Henry George Bohn

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius. — Robert Breault

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar. — Gordie Howe

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle. — Pietro Mascagni