Best 87 quotes in «strings quotes» category

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

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.

I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.

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

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

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

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

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.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.

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

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

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.

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

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

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

The purse strings tie us to our kind.

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

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

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.

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

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

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

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in my cab. It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. She got in, put a piece of herself inside me, and left again.

With "Futurama," I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our original plan was never to have Fry and Leela get together, we finally just said, "You can only string the fans along so far.

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

As there is no joy for the broken heart, there is also no harmony to a guitar with broken strings.

Angels of highest light and love, Angels that radiate beams of pure energy from the heavens above. Please join us and be with us on this very night, As the soul of our beloved joins you in flight. We pray that you send this soul embraced in your lovely wings, During his journey may he hear harps, and trumpets and strings.

As I stare at it,I can feel little invisible strings,silently tugging me toward it. I have to touch it. I have to wear it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

As with dreams, the vibration of strings walks us towards places we've never seen.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.

But it was the last string. It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left, and every paper girl needs at least one string, right?

I'll marry that girl one day, you mark my words," Toby said.

Everything in all manifested universes is composed of strings. They are created immediately after a Big Bang and they rapidly multiply like viruses or bacteria until they are brought under the control by dark matter and dark energy.

He was too damn old to run now, too tired of that romantic idea of freedom that infected the heads of the young and later killed most of them with crushing disappointment. The Cassinis had always made sure he was just comfortable enough to want to sit tight and not risk the generosities they’d afforded him, and the older he got, the more comfortable he became. Comfort had a way of killing the romance in just about everybody.

If you hurt her," she hiccuped. "I will kick your ass. Seriously.

I have become intoxicated again. You are such a potent wine, my friend. To escape your withdrawal effects, tomorrow I will drink in excess. Alas, why make me love? I was aware, conscious, and sensible before. I am ill by cause of this illusion. The devil plays tricks on me more and more. I was a harp you immaculately plucked at will. Your score, the nightingale song within notes composed to imprison and bear me wings. Oh, if only they could hear how it sings! I am now beyond parched. My strings left untouched. You are no longer an oasis, my friend, but a mirage soon coming to an end.

Don't break my heart," he heard her whisper, making him stop for just a second to look her in the eyes. "I won't. Don't break mine," he responded, making her smile as she pulled him back to her. She wanted his lips on hers again.

It's all one big conspiracy. Just there's naebody pulling all the strings.

I See the string of Time, surrendered on the wings of Neptune's birth, where the half-moon proclaims the divinity’s song with the rise of Maghrib- Saqib Abraham

It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? (58)