Strings Quotes - Page 35

• The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

  Saadi

  Heart, Musical, Harmony

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• It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.

  Tone-Loc

  Family, Mother, Two

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• I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

  Bob Seger

  Track, Quarterback, Runners

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• ...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with them under my pillow. He said that when he came back, we would remeasure his body against the string as proof that he hadn't changed.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sleep, Pieces, Body

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• And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sea, Voice, Steps

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.141, eBookIt.com

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• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Book, Hero

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

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• I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.

  Charlie Day

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The most incredible thing about playing the songs live for people - looking out to the crowd and seeing the different reactions and the different heart-strings and the things that people are relating to that mean something to them, that's crazy.

  Hayley Williams

  Song, Crazy, Heart

  "Interview: Paramore's Hayley Williams On Their Self-Titled Album + 2014 New Zealand Tour!". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

  Larry Elder

  Law, Benefits, Poor

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• The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

  Joshua Foer

  Book, Ipads, Impact

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• Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.

  Charles Bukowski

  Girl, Jobs, Wall

  Charles Bukowski, “Pull A String, A Puppet Moves”

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• Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!

  Tom Stoppard

  Song, Real, Mean

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• I can fish from a stick and a string.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Sticks, Fishes, I Can

  "Q&A: Giancarlo Esposito, True Gentleman, on Revolution and Breaking Bad". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2012.

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• For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Hands, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.219, Pan Macmillan

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• Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Aprons, Break

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Guitar, Japan, People

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• A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

  Sam Harris

  Long, Puppets

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• And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Kites, Months, Hours

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.78, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

  Haruki Murakami

  Somewhere Else, Broken, Mind

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 23, 2015

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• I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

  Muddy Waters

  Christmas, Running, Crazy

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• Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Farewell, Saying Goodbye

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• To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Writing, Together

  Mark Twain (2016). “The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories”, p.179, Xist Publishing

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• I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and it was a mask where you cut out the eye holes and put a string through the side. It makes me feel like I'm 11 years old all over again.

  Mark Hamill

  Eye, Cutting, Years

  "Mark Hamill Makes ‘Biggest Gamble of Career’ with ‘Sushi Girl’". Interview with David Onda, my.xfinity.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?

  David Steindl-Rast

  Wind, Independence, Different

  David Steindl-rast (2010). “Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed”, p.137, Image

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• If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Creative, Opponents

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