Strings Quotes - Page 27

• It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Morning, Ocean, Adventure

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• It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French Revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.

  Isak Dinesen

  Dream, Taken, Heart

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

  John Green

  Play, Betray

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.108, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.

  Annie Proulx

  Believe, Men, Wind

  "Fictional character: Quoyle". "The Shipping News", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

  George McGovern

  Europe, Oil, Tanks

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• I've cried over string arrangements.

  Janelle Monae

  Cried, Arrangements

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• For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

  Spike Milligan

  Hands, Years, Iron

  "The Goon Show, Season 7, Episode 25: "The Histories of Pliny the Elder"". TV Series, March 28, 1957.

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• Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Heart, Parent, Soul

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• [A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

  H. G. Wells

  Eggs, Light, Church

  'Boon' (1915) ch. 4

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• Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.

  Gary Lucas

  Moving, Emotional, Guitar

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• Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance
  With the stars up above in your eyes...
  And I'm trying to please to the calling
  Of your heart-strings that they play soft and low
  And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush
  And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush...
  One more Moondance with you in the moonlight
  On a magic night

  Van Morrison

  Stars, Eye, Heart

  Van Morrison (2016). “Toma interior”, p.82, Malpaso Ediciones SL

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• It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

  Stanley Milgram

  Perception, Puppets, May

  "The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India". Book by V. R. Krishna Iyer, 1979.

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• It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a wilderness purchased for strings of beads, but you find it impossible not to believe that it has always been a city; that if you dug beneath it you would find the ruins of another, older city, and then another and another.

  Michael Cunningham

  Crush, Believe, Moving

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.14, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

  Ed Asner

  Athlete, Years, Hot

  Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

  Brenda Lee

  Im Sorry, Song, Nashville

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• For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.

  Erma Bombeck

  Laughter, Holiday, Play

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.11, Fawcett

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• There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

  Thomas Hood

  Mirth, Melancholy, Chords

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• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Sublime, Mind, Steel

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.74, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even when 'Basic Instinct' was a hit, I still felt like I was running with that ball toward the end zone. It took awhile for me to realize that I was already in the end zone with the ball down and the crowd screaming on its feet.

  Sharon Stone

  Football, Running, Feet

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• Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.

  Anais Nin

  Echoes, Giving, Secret

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• [On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The only speech part that he has mastered completely is the non sequitur.

  Mary McGrory

  Running, Morning, Men

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• ... each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes its complex motions in space-time by splitting and recombining, a large number of highly sophisticated mathematical identities must be satisfied. These are precisely the mathematical identities discovered by Ramanujan.

  Michio Kaku

  Numbers, Space, Identity

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.173, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow.

  Jean Ingelow

  Fog, Long, Red

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.86

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• I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

  Eddie Vedder

  Ukulele, Machines, Littles

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot of these were so popular they were sung only by drunken men at weddings. They didn't have any regard for the song at all. So, I picked out 14 songs that I had grown up with, songs with great melodies. After 35 years as a songwriter, I appreciate the value of a good melody because I know how hard it is to write one. So I presented them in a new way, with piano, keyboards, strings, and a contemporary rhythm section. I just treated the melody with a bit of dignity and a bit of style.

  Phil Coulter

  Song, Writing, Men

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