String Quotes

475 quotes by 386 authors

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of… — Arthur Nersesian
Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown… — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you.… — Rachel Kushner
I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys… — Pat Sajak
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a… — Lydia M. Child
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. — Rex Stout
When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just… — Les Paul
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace. — Mary Chapin Carpenter
London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot… — Arnold Schoenberg
I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony. — James Sellars
...it works ... (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax & String Lube) .. makes the strings last longer ... — Larry Coryell
... I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned… — Billy Gibbons
...every once in a while it seems like the cosmos part and something great plops into your lap, that's how it was with "Hotel California"..… — Don Felder
Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling… — Cheryl Strayed
Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build… — Peggy Noonan
A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right,… — Eddie Van Halen
I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps... — Amedeo Modigliani
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a… — Gregory Benford
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully. — Elizabeth Moon

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386 authors contributed a total of 475 String Quotes, led by these top contributors: