Strings Quotes · Page 12

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

— Sean Wilentz

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

— Chuck Mangione

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

— Robert Gottlieb

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

— Georg Buchner

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

— Dave Barry

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

— Keith Richards

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

— Daphne du Maurier

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts…

— Macklemore

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on…

— Anonymous

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…

— Rob Bell

It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was,…

— Jonathan Franzen

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until…

— John Green

I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and…

— Mark Hamill

Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of…

— Charlie Brooker

I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens…

— Scott Adams

I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them…

— Philip Glass

Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too…

— Bernie Siegel

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,…

— Erica Jong

The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking…

— St. Jerome

There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got…

— Jasper Fforde

Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to…

— Michio Kaku

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

— Rex Stout

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

— Carlos Boozer

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to…

— Khalil Gibran

How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?

— Dov Davidoff

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

— Chic Murray

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

— Neal A. Maxwell

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

— Alan Cohen

I want to pull very long, multi-colored strings out of my brain and place them next to a bowl of Doritos at…

— Megan Boyle

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

— Charles Dickens

Friendship is like a violin .. Music may stop , but strings will always stay

— Ritu Ghatourey

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm...

— James O'Barr

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

— Jane Kaczmarek

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

— Harry Chapin

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

— Novalis

I don't mind dancing the robot if the chemicals are ok, but beyond that the robot will not pull my strings.

— John Lydon

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

— Edward Witten