Strings Quotes

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

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.

The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

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

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.

I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.

My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!

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

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.

I've cried over string arrangements.

I've plenty of bows to my string.

Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

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

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.

We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

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

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

If a string has one end, it has another.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars.

I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.