Best 87 quotes in «strings quotes» category

You cannot taste a song but you can feel the tune relishing your heart where strings of music belong.

Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.

and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole

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

I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.

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.

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.

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

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

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.

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

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

If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

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

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

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

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.

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

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

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