Strings Quotes - Page 19

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

George Eliot

Heart, Sadness, Ties

George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.34, London

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But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.

Sylvia Plath

Children, Lying, Hands

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Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in a while and a nosebleed or bruised breast might result. But it just seemed proof that a great foulness was afoot in the world when a no-strings roll in the hay with a stranger led to chipped teeth or cigarette burns on the wrist.

Daniel Woodrell

Hate, Confused, Hands

Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.32, Hachette UK

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But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

John Green

Mean, Roots, Long

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and in the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadavers head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.

Sylvia Plath

Eggs, Black, Cadavers

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And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

John Green

Leaving, Together, Paper

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.479, Penguin

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Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size.

Terry Kath

Worry, Missing, Half

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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

Eric Clapton

Guitar, Grandparent, Buying

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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

Jackie Chan

Crazy, Perfect, Together

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I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

Brian Greene

Everyday, Mesh, Theory

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I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys named Lou who collect and wear string cheese.

Pat Sajak

Reality, Self, Years

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I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.

Brian Greene

Would Be, Theory, Theorists

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My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

Brian Greene

Emotional, Yesterday, Today

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String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.

Brian Greene

Space, Would Be, Bread

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Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

Don King

Kings, Careers, Shoes

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This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.

Eddie Vedder

Song, Groups, Tools

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String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.

Brian Greene

Stars, Reflection, Bangs

Brian Greene (2010). “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.

Brian Greene

Believe, Together, Mechanic

NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.

Brian Greene

Ideas, Energy, Molecules

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With "Futurama," I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our original plan was never to have Fry and Leela get together, we finally just said, "You can only string the fans along so far."

Matt Groening

Unrequited Love, Together, Fans

"'Futurama' ends: The Matt Groening interview, Part 2". Interview with Robert Lloyd, articles.latimes.com. July 24, 2013.

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You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they are in our hearts and in our memory. The only thing we can depend on is change... Life is just a series of moments -- a string of pearls that make up the necklace of your life and so every once in a while, to complete the circle, you need to end a chapter.

Amy Poehler

Goodbye, Memories, Life Changing

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I was shooting a scene in my new film, No Strings Attached, in which I say to Natalie Portman, “If you miss me. you can’t text, you can’t email, you can’t post it on my Facebook wall. If you really miss me, you come and see me.

Ashton Kutcher

Wall, Strings Attached, Missing

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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.

Kabir

Play, Soul, Body

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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

Bjork

People, Sake, Conservative

"'Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age'". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Amelia Barr

Alaska, Making Love, World

Amelia E. Barr (2009). “The Belle of Bowling Green”, p.61, Wildside Press LLC

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