Strings Quotes - Page 14

• People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Discovery, Self

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• Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

  Mu Xin

  Ideas, Broken, Necklaces

  Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. August 2003.

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• It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting

  John Newcombe

  Cheating, Tennis, Balls

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• How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

  Daniel Dennett

  Music, Reading, Imagination

  Daniel C. Dennett (2017). “Consciousness Explained”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt to help them.

  Lubos Motl

  Humble, Marijuana, Wings

  "Marijuana creates holes in lungs". motls.blogspot.ru. June 04, 2007.

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• July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.

  Jean Hersey

  Sweet, Beach, Garden

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• Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Thinking, Oysters, Pearls

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

  Eudora Welty

  Women, Home, Ironing Board

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Funny, Humor, Keys

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “In My Good Books”, p.42, A&C Black

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• Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
  Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing!
  Let the piano's martial blast
  Rouse the Echoes of the Past

  W. S. Gilbert

  Blow, Past, Echoes

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Story Of Prince Agib”

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• Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
  Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
  A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
  And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she
  sings.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Music, Mother, Children

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

  John le Carre

  Giving, Bows

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• Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.

  Edward Witten

  Strong, Cousin, Progress

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• String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

  Edward Witten

  Physics, Century, Theory

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• For an electric guitarist to solo effectively on an acoustic guitar you need to develop tricks to avoid the expectation of sustain that comes from playing electrics. Try cascades, for example. Drop arpeggios over open strings, and let the open strings sing as you pick with your fingers. It's kind of a country style of playing, but it works very well in-between heavily strummed parts and fingered lead lines.

  Pete Townshend

  Country, Guitar, Expectations

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• Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,
  Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
  All many be well.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Heart, Steel

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1841). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare,: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play,”, p.494

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• Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out.

  Chris Evans

  Cute, Baby, Octopus

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• You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God, and (said he) God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings, and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God.

  John Taylor

  Heart, Men, Inheritance

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• The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Arrows, Wrath

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• I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.

  Tom Rush

  Work Out, Awful, Acoustics

  "Tom Rush Interview: Celebrating 50 Years of Storytelling and Music". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.

  Lars von Trier

  Dark, Evil, Giving

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• Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings.

  Aziz Ansari

  Divorce, Littles, Natural

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• Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a
  chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Destiny, Guilt, World

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Struggle, Angel

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.361, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Keys, Giving

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 8,

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