Strings Quotes - Page 38

• Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Soccer, Athlete

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• At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

  Alberto Manguel

  Confused, Book, Childhood

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• We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.

  Leo Booth

  Art, Waiting, Puppets

  Leo Booth (1991). “When God becomes a drug: breaking the chains of religious addiction & abuse”, J P Tarcher

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• String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

  Roy H. Williams

  Nature, Vibrations, Energy

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• Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

  Robin Williams

  Nylon, Green, Cotton

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Outcomes, Sometimes

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• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

  Hsu Yun

  Strong, Buddhist, Heart

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• No strings attached, your love is so WiFi.

  Drake

  Relationship, Song, Humble

  Song: Beyond This

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• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Heart, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.297, Harvard University Press

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• Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Wish, Taxation

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.195

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• True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

  Suze Orman

  Offering, Strings Attached, Generosity

  "The 8 Qualities of a Successful Life" by Suze Orman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.

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• It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Hero, Finance, Beads

  "The League of Youth and Pillars of Society".

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• You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

  Kim Basinger

  Clever, Writing, People

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• ...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings and membranes. The laws of chemistry are the melodies that one can play on these strings. the universe is a symphony of strings. And the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace.

  Michio Kaku

  Writing, Years, Law

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• If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down the strings of his acoustic guitar. ...And we were convinced that this was the definitive illustration of what we both loved about music; we loved hearing the INSIDE of a song.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Song, Guitar, Illustration

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• After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Book, Writing

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• It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing under the rustic colonial clock and stared. He was drinking champagne. There were strings coming out from all around me, reaching out, waving in the air. Someone passed him a brownie. He held it in his hand but did not eat. He saw my shape and face, which had not changed-the hair still parted down the middle, the chest still flat and hips undeveloped-and wanted to call out my name. It was only a moment, and then I was gone.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Grandma, Drinking

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• My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne

  Robert Jordan

  Mother, Heart, Men

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.130, Macmillan

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• Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Blue, Sea

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Voice, Lays

  Song: Lay Down Your Weary Tune, Album: Biograph

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• If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Cutting, Blow

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.59, Penguin

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• You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.

  Julian Barnes

  Views, Two, Together

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?

  Dov Davidoff

  Play, Used, Instruments

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 14, 2011

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