Strings Quotes - Page 9

• Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

  Duncan Sheik

  Doe, Records, Woods

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• Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

  Steve Swallow

  Running, Play, Bass

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• Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

  Emanuel Ax

  Player, Enough Time, Too Much

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• The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

  St. Jerome

  Jesus, Animal, People

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• Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

  Aldous Huxley

  Gratitude, Thinking, Tongue

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• Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you.

  Barbara Johnson

  Time, Brother, Niece

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• When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.

  Fred Allen

  Music, Cat, Play

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• We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Thinking, Numbers, World

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.223, Penguin

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• You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Games, People, Different

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

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• The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.

  Brian Morton

  Memories, Blessed, Imagination

  Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

  Dave Barry

  Dna, Abbreviations, Syllables

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.146, Ballantine Books

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• Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new 'program' to introduce. No! The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.

  James C. Collins

  Fashion, Commitment, Organization

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• One's whole being vibrates like strings brushed by an invisible wind.

  Peter Russell

  Wind, Invisible, Whole

  Peter Russell (1997). “Something about poetry: selected lectures and essays by Peter Russell”

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• If Jack Nicklaus had to play my tee shots, he couldn't break 80. He'd be a pharmacist with a string of drugstores in Ohio.

  Lee Trevino

  Ohio, Play, Break

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• Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

  Beck

  Beautiful, Bentley, Satisfied

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• I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

  Alannah Myles

  Player, House, Bass

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• In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Years, Decision

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

  Peter De Vries

  Riding, Splinters, Pieces

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• New York congressmen have recently been plagued by a string of embarrassing scandals. Shirtless craigslist hunk Chris Lee, nonconsensual staff tickle monster, Eric Massa, naked texter Anthony Weiner, so this guy is now running to join those dubious ranks and win the Michael Grimm seat. And he`s campaigning on the promise that he`s too old to be too gross. And I`m not paraphrasing the campaign pledge.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, New York, Winning

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• The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.

  Stephen Coonts

  Real, Character, People

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• Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string.

  Jon Stewart

  Creating, People, Together

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• Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

  Dante Alighieri

  Arrows, Essence, Two

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Paradiso”, p.325, Penguin

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• I've started a little independent record label called 'Six String Productions' and recorded a couple of tunes, and I hope to do some more with some future artists next year. It's a real passion project of mine.

  Tom Felton

  Couple, Real, Independent

  "Tom Felton Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1; Plus an Update on RISE OF THE APES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 22, 2010.

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• As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Arrows, Gathering, Momentum

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• Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

  Edgar Guest

  Children, Jewels, Years

  Edgar Albert Guest, “The Children”

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