Strings Quotes - Page 36

• At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

  David Levien

  Remember, Moments, Ends

  David Levien (2008). “City of the Sun: Frank Behr”, p.401, Random House

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• Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

  John Banville

  Writing, Civilization, Long

  "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

  Aldous Huxley

  Form, Thread

  Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Religious

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.437

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• Love is...like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spring, Price Tag

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• I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Moving, Twists, Tables

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• Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

  John Green

  Paper, Towns, Broke

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.71, A&C Black

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• Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

  John Muir

  Cells, Tree, Music And Life

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir: Spiritual Writings”, p.64, Orbis Books

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• The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Order, Mind

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.258, Pan Macmillan

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• I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

  Brooks Robinson

  Baseball, Men, Games

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• All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

  Joe Hill

  Life, Together, World

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• If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Soul, Events

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• We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Trying, Legs, Spirit

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.125, Vintage

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• Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Cutting, Men

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• love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

  Khalil Gibran

  Marriage, Moving, Sea

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

  George D. Prentice

  Witty, Kindness, Broken

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• It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forever, Slaughterhouse Five, Gone

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.9, Infobase Publishing

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• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

  John Muir

  Life, Song, Cutting

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

  George H. W. Bush

  People, Lamps, Done

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• Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning

  Arlene Goldbard

  Writing, Giving, Miracle

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• Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Eye, Color, Piano

  Quoted in K C Lindsay and P Vergo (eds and trans) Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art (1982).

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• A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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• In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Discipline, Imagination

  Sula (1973)

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• A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

  Laurie Colwin

  Summer, Food, July

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• That was the first sound in the song of love!
  Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound.
  Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
  Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
  And play the prelude of our fate. We hear
  The voice prophetic, and are not alone.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Song, Fate

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.108

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