String Quotes
475 quotes by 386 authors
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God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there…
— John Bunyan
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A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old…
— Keith Richards
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The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even…
— Melina Marchetta
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I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last…
— Suzanne Collins
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You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the…
— Augusten Burroughs
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This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They…
— John Green
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I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture…
— Jeanette Winterson
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SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches…
— Terry Pratchett
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Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be…
— Trudi Canavan
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And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It…
— D. H. Lawrence
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For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible?…
— Annie Proulx
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First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past…
— John Steinbeck
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It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to…
— Jeff Lindsay
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I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the…
— Karen Marie Moning
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It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk…
— Isak Dinesen
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Every paper girl needs at least one string.
— John Green
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Who Wrote These String Quotes
386 authors contributed a total of 475 String Quotes, led by these top contributors: