Strings Quotes

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.

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.

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings.

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

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow.

I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.

I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings

The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.

ELIXIR Strings are bright and so sturdy. I'm absolutely in love with them.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings.

What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?

In Republican fantasy world, everything is always Obama's fault. Somehow, he's weak and he's ineffective, and yet he pulls the strings on everything in the world.

I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing bunches of songs around four strings.

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

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

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.

It's weird. I guess I got so used to [g-strings] when I was really young that I just couldn't stand it anymore.

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section.

Death cut the strings that gave me life, And handed me to Sorrow, The only kind of middle wife My folks could beg or borrow.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

Big business, elite media and major donors are throwing money at Hillary Clinton because they have total control over every single thing she does. She is their puppet and they pull the strings.

I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.

For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.

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

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

It takes a lot of energy to manipulate someone and keep them on a string.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?

I can fish from a stick and a string.

The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.

It's the strings vibrating at the same time but separately that makes a good marriage. It messy, it's complicated and it's quite wonderful.

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.