Strings Quotes · Page 13

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

— Zora Neale Hurston

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings...

— Charles W. Chesnutt

My body wasn't made to look good in a string bikini. It was made to feed and nurture a child.

— Alyssa Milano

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

— Michael Owen

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

— Cat Stevens

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

— Guy Davenport

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

— Haruki Murakami

From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

— Sam Harris

We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The…

— Bill Gates

'Psycho' is probably the best known example of a horror film whose exclusive sound was strings, and since then, it's been hard…

— Christopher Young

I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making.…

— Danny Strong

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in…

— Anne McCaffrey

I was married in my 30s, in a long relationship for about seven years, got divorced, and then I had a string…

— Sutton Foster

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes…

— George Eliot

I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time.…

— Terry Bozzio

Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a…

— Florynce Kennedy

The question is, do we have a shadow government? And, if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is -- that…

— Glenn Beck

I don't feel that comfortable being on the runway with a G-string. I shoot G-strings with Victoria's Secret, but on the runway...…

— Alessandra Ambrosio

You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face…

— Darren Shan

They don't encourage quality today. When I was coming along, Columbia Records would sit with you and assume it would take two…

— Ramsey Lewis

You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as…

— John Taylor

If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely…

— Wu Guanzhong

It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it…

— Sylvia Plath

For an electric guitarist to solo effectively on an acoustic guitar you need to develop tricks to avoid the expectation of sustain…

— Pete Townshend

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

— Ben Marcus

The violin is basically made of a wood box and four main strings.

— Sirena Huang

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is…

— Amelia Barr

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken…

— Annie Proulx

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

— John le Carre

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

— Frederick Lenz

The strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning.

— Caroline Myss

Strings have been a part of my career and my albums since the very first day. 'Snowbird' had beautiful strings.

— Anne Murray

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

— Barbra Streisand

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

— Bryan Procter

It takes a lot of energy to manipulate someone and keep them on a string.

— Frederick Lenz

...it works ... (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax & String Lube) .. makes the strings last longer ...

— Larry Coryell

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

— David Levien

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

— John Milton

Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.

— Takuboku Ishikawa

A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.

— Harvey Mackay