Strings Quotes - Page 13

• I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even mention celebrities. Many American towns are famous for things like, "See the World's Largest Ball of String!" I think my town's would probably have to be "Most Pretentious People".

  Katherine Heigl

  Thinking, People, Balls

  FHM Interview, October 2000.

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• When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

  Sam Trammell

  School, Theory, Fascinating

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• I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Karma, Believe, Mean

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Daughter, Fall, Mean

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

  Jimmy Page

  Wise, Guitar, Imagination

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• You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and it is very unlikely you are going to succeed at anything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Attitude, Buddhism

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• ...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.

  Ian Darke

  Football, Feet, Balls

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• You know I enjoy modeling but at the end of the day it's a little bit mindless. I mean I was that person that would come home from a modeling job and have to clean the house because I sort of felt like, what the heck did I do today? You know I mean I'm like woo-hoo, I'm changing the world in these blue high heels and a string bikini.

  Amy Weber

  Jobs, Mean, Home

  "Becoming Pony Boi". Interview with Mike Furci, www.bullz-eye.com. December 12, 2008.

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• A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy.

  Frank Loesser

  Writing, Night, Keys

  Frank Loesser (2003). “The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  People, Want, Good Things

  "Surfer-Physicist's Unified Theory Leads to Fame, Backlash". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 27, 2008.

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• Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

  Ivan Reitman

  Strings Attached, Way, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.

  Henry Fielding

  Two, Golden, Bows

  Henry Fielding (1824). “Works: With a Life of the Author”, p.82

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• There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

  John Philip Sousa

  Wind, Balance, Orchestra

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• The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope; Blessings are plentiful and rife. More plentiful than hope.

  George Herbert

  Kings, Sunday, Men

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.73

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• The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.

  Edwin Arnold

  Wise, Eye, Men

  Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.80, Routledge

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• I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

  William Shakespeare

  Humility

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1372

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• The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

  Horace

  Music, Play, Laughed

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• Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Angel, Miracle

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• There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.

  Robert Breault

  Song, Art, Voice

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• A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.

  Robert Herrick

  Shoes, Ties, Cuffs

  'The End'

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• We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Fate, Destiny, Hands

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing

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• Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Enlightenment, Introduction

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• The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.

  Rich Hall

  Running, Humorous, Giving

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• Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.

  Jack Johnson

  Future, Hands, Machines

  Song: The Horizon Has Been Defeated, Album: On And On

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• We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Attitude, Luxury

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