Strings Quotes - Page 20

• I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

  Billy Corgan

  Ideas, Musical, Alive

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• A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

  Louis C. K.

  Movie, Struggle, Creating

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• We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

  Denis Diderot

  Memories, Philosophy, Medicine

  "D'Alembert's Dream". Book by Denis Diderot, 1830.

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• Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown world, her gift of language rising up like a delicate string of necessary lights. There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. If we receive the fiery spirit from which it was written, it ought to change much more than that.

  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

  Book, Light, Unknown Worlds

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• I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore.

  William O. Douglas

  Adventure, Men, Richness Of Life

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• I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

  David Byrne

  Emotional, Body, Bass

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• I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Hands, Attacking, Fine

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• The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

  Rita Dove

  Thinking, Shadow, Cheerful

  Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Today Life, People, Live For Today

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• What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my mind in 3D, as a kind of construct. Then I do experiments with the image...sort of rotate it, and say, 'Well what'll happen if one does this?' And by the time I get up for breakfast I can usually go to the bench and make a string and sealing wax model that works straight off, because I've done most of the experiments already.

  James Lovelock

  Morning, Thinking, Imagination

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• A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.

  T. S. Eliot

  Baby, Wall, Halloween

  Waste Land (1922) pt. 5

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• I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!

  Lisa Edelstein

  Hate, Kids, Kale

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• My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

  Brian Eno

  Cutting, Guitar, Play

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• I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

  Brian Eno

  Guitar, Years, Pounds

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• I've Got the World on a String.

  Louis Armstrong

  World

  Song: I've Got The World On A String

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• In Hollywood, there really is a stigma against wrestling. I think that's why people think wrestlers are Neanderthals who can't string two words together.

  Chris Jericho

  Wrestling, Thinking, Two

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• When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will join thy soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like, forever unconsumed, all they veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of 'Hell's Unutterable Lament'.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Lying, Fire

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• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Horror Genre, New Day, Devil

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• C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Two, Cups, Dixie

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• The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Communication, Long, Example

  "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.

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• When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

  Tori Amos

  Mom, Mother, Talking

  "Tori Amos On Her Muses, Her Song Girls And Her Father". Interview with Ann Powers, www.npr.org. October 17, 2012.

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• For a long time, the scientists have been telling us global warming increases the temperature of the top layer in the ocean, and that causes the average hurricane to become a lot stronger. So, the fact that the ocean temperatures did go up because of global warming, because of man-made global warming, starting around in the '70s, and then we had a string of unusually strong hurricanes outside the boundaries of this multi-decadal cycle that is a real factor; there are scientists who point that out, and they're right, but we're exceeding those boundaries now.

  Al Gore

  Strong, Real, Ocean

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 13, 2006.

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• Sand camouflage army men
  CCF sponsorin, world conquerin, telephone monitorin
  Louis Vuitton modelin, pornographic actress honorin
  String theory ponderin, bullimic vomitin
  Catholic priest fondlin, pre-emptive bombin and Osama and no bombin them
  They breakin in my car again, deforestation and overloggin and
  Hennessy and Hypnotic swallowin, hydroponic coughin and
  All the world's ills, sittin on chrome 24-inch wheels, like that

  Lupe Fiasco

  Army, Men, Car

  Song: Hurts Me Soul

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• Girls in New York look like giraffes.
  Long neck, long legs, tiny tits and ass.
  Girls from L.A rock over sized shades.
  And chill all day cause they already paid.
  Girls in Miami...string bikinis and bump techno by Dj Tiesto.
  Girls from Detroit like electro
  And dance all night till they break they neck yo.

  Shwayze

  Girl, New York, Night

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