Quotes and Sayings About Strings
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We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
-- Alan Moore -
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps...
-- Amedeo Modigliani -
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.
-- Arthur Nersesian -
I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
-- Bill Nighy -
Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.
-- Bob Dylan -
I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
-- Bob Seger -
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.
-- Boz Scaggs -
In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.
-- Brandon Stanton -
I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
-- Brian Greene -
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
-- Cat Stevens -
My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.
-- Chris Isaak -
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
-- Chuck Mangione -
God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.
-- Dave Van Ronk -
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.
-- David Cronenberg -
A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
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.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
-- Edmund Waller -
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.
-- Edward Witten -
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.
-- Edward Witten -
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
-- Elizabeth Moon -
Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.
-- Frans Johansson -
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
-- George Eliot -
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
-- Gertrude Stein -
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
-- Guy Davenport -
Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.
-- Henry George Bohn -
Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.
-- Hugh Kingsmill -
The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.
-- Jackson Pearce