Strings Quotes - Page 39

• The strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning.

  Caroline Myss

  New Beginnings, Past, Needs

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Invisible Acts of Power: The Divine Energy of a Giving Heart”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

  Louise Erdrich

  Daughter, Body, Life Is

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• In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's canvases--beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.

  Anne Rice

  Art, Men, Garden

  Anne Rice (2003). “The vampire Lestat”

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• There's nothing like a string of Xmas lights inside the house to make the whole family feel like they live in a vintage clothing store.

  Dana Gould

  Xmas, Light, Vintage

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• But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

  John Green

  Kids, Cutting

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.105, A&C Black

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• And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Flower, Moving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1998). “Diaries of a Young Poet”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  I Hate You, Alaska, Knowing Better

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  Knowing, Alaska, Done

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• '9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.

  Dolly Parton

  Perfect, Boss, Musical

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• My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

  Dolly Parton

  Tin Cans, Two, Phones

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• You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

  Tommy Bolin

  Piano, Fingers, Contact

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• I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Writing, Want, Quartets

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• So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Home, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.348, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

  Sam Harris

  Ted Bundy, Theory, String Theory

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• I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

  Andy Kindler

  Real, Believe, Conspiracy

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• There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

  Jasper Fforde

  Confused, Thinking, Albums

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• they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

  George Orwell

  Heart, Years, Tears

  George Orwell, Duncan Macmillan, Robert Icke (2013). “1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)”, p.45, Oberon Books

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• Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Skills

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.282, Faber & Faber

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• This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Love, Romantic, Miracle

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.135, Anchor

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• Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

  Joseph Hall

  Life, Running, Ties

  "The Holy State and the Profane State". Book by Thomas Fuller, Book III, 1642.

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• You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way.

  William Faulkner

  Moving, People, Atheism

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  Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

  Jimmy Page

  Character, Believe In Yourself, Guitar

  "Biography: Jimmy Page". www.thecinemaholic.com. April 04, 2018.

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• In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

  Neil Strauss

  Life, Appreciation, Time

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.108, Canongate Books

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• You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

  Alison Krauss

  Honesty, Soul, Hay

  "Alison Kraus: Back to her roots" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Patience, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Joy and Peace: A Holy Condition”, p.84, Discovery House

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