Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the… — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first… — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it,… — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it,… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth.… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Love is like a roller coaster: When it's good you don't want to get off, and when it isn't, you can't wait… — June Masters Bacher Copy Share Image
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting… — William James Copy Share Image
The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow. — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
I have never really thought of him as a person, either… A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root… — John Green Copy Share Image
String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron… — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string,… — Steve Swallow Copy Share Image
Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy… — Bjork Copy Share Image
they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with… — Donald Dunn Copy Share Image
A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic,' Sometimes I get annoyed when they say… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
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