Strings Quotes - Page 23

• Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

  Truman Capote

  Guitar, Weapons, Prison

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Writing, Together

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.272, Pan Macmillan

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• Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

  Dr. Seuss

  Friday, Uncles, Night

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• If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it.

  Jay Asher

  Party, Tangled, Would Be

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.239, Penguin

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• Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.

  Graham Joyce

  Thinking, Two, People

  Graham Joyce (2011). “The Silent Land: A novel”, p.169, Anchor

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• Angelina, Alicia, and Katie suddenly giggled. "What?" said Wood, frowning at this lighthearted behavior. "He's that tall, good-looking one, isn't he?" said Angelina. "Strong and silent," said Katie, and they started to giggle again. "He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together," said Fred impatiently.

  J. K. Rowling

  Strong, Two, Together

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• It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Children, Father

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2238, Bantam

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• All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was - my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self - disconnected from me in that second - snip, snip, snip - and floated up into space.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Loyalty, Brother

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.212, Hachette UK

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• you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

  Khalil Gibran

  Freedom, Liberty, Skylarks

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.74, Lulu.com

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• When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

  Pete Seeger

  Guitar, Play, Tunes

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• and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Surprise, Moments, Spots

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• When I first starting making beats, I didn't know samples were being used in any beats. I had no idea where producers were getting the real string sounds or the voices on their tracks. I knew nothing about loops or sampling off of records. So, by me knowing nothing about this it made me concentrate on my chords on the keyboard.

  Rahki

  Real, Knowing Nothing, Ideas

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.

  Joan Jett

  Hurt, Book, Fighting

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• Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big bang. In the inflation theory, and in string theory, there were universes before our big bang, and that big bangs are happening all the time. Universes are formed when bubbles collide or fission into smaller bubles.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Bangs, Modern

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• The best theory comes from string theory, which states that dark matter is nothing but a higher vibration of the string. We are, in some sense, the lowest octave of a vibrating string.

  Michio Kaku

  Dark, Matter, Vibrations

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• The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness. The origin of the universe is what I do for a living, working on string theory. But I am also fascinated by consciousness.

  Michio Kaku

  Ideas, Two, Consciousness

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• The next big accelerator might be the ILC in Japan, a linear collider which might be able to probe the boundaries of string theory. So we physicists have to learn how to engage the public so that taxpayers money is used to explore the nature of the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Japan, Might, Able

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• I hope we find evidence of dark matter in the lab and in outer space. This would go a long way to proving the correctness of string theory, which is what I do for a living. That is my day job. So string theory is a potentially experimentally verifiable theory.

  Michio Kaku

  Jobs, Dark, Space

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

  John Petrucci

  Balls, Too Much, Telephones

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to be an imaginary sphere. But recent theories indicate that it may actually be physical, maybe even a sphere of fire. But I don't trust any of these calculations until we have a full-blown string theory calculation, since Einstein's theory by itself is incomplete.

  Michio Kaku

  Apples, Fire, Upset

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• Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

  Rob Bell

  Size, Looks, Theory

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You might be able to get a certain sound, and in the studio you certainly look at things under a microscope a lot more. You might hear more warmth out of a thicker string gauge. But in the practical world, like with us, we're playing An Evening With... so it's three hours of music, and our music is pretty challenging as far as the technical aspect. And I found after awhile that I was killing myself.

  John Petrucci

  Challenges, Sound, Gauges

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Violinist

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• I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, Gun, Should Have

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• I was actually very surprised after using some plastic necklaces on the strings, as the sound was very bright. Sometimes I just put something inside that lies next to me.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Lying, Sound, Necklaces

  Source: pitchfork.com

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