Heartstrings Quotes:

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

- Dennis Gabor

topic: Heart, Poetry, Poetry Is, Great Poet, Poetry By Poets

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

- Piers Corbyn

topic: Years, Might, Lasts, Deceitful, Polar Bears

Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

topic: Mom, Daughter, Baby, Orange Trees, Clutch

What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you’re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.

- Keith Richards

source: Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.193, Hachette UK

topic: Running, Song, Taken, Heartstrings

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

- Gordon Lightfoot

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

topic: Nuts, World, Littles, Heartstrings

I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.

- Angela Kinsey

topic: Mom, Heart, Special, Heart Strings, Heartstrings

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

- Shane Koyczan

topic: Hurt, Cutting, Heartache, Broken Bone, Heartstrings

Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your money at the radio while yelling, "I love you." I don't know what it is.

- Jonathan Goldstein

topic: Love You, Voice, Yelling, Oboes, Heart Strings

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

topic: Brother, Time, Niece, Heartstrings

Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation of you.

- Ko Joon-hee

topic: Children, Drama, Long, Heart Strings, Heartstrings

Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.

- Langston Hughes

source: Langston Hughes (2011). “The Panther and the Lash”, p.40, Vintage

topic: Sweet, Everyday, Liberty, Heartstrings

Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

- Rudyard Kipling

source: "The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling".

topic: Women, Heart, Sight, Heartstrings

When I was in junior high, I would carry around this huge volume of Shakespeare. I just like the romantic vibe. I write about it because I fall in and out of love quite a bit. I was always pulling on my mother’s heartstrings to get more love.

- Fefe Dobson

topic: Mother, Fall, Writing, Heartstrings

The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

- Jean Cocteau

topic: Friendship, Cutting, Preservation, Opportunism, Heartstrings

The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.

- Scott Porter

source: "Scott Porter: Nobody wants to watch guys ride a mechanical bull". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 19, 2010.

topic: Friday, Night, Light, Friday Night Lights, Heartstrings

I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.

- Amanda Donohoe

topic: Weather, Hollywood, England, Norfolk, Heart Strings