String Quotes

475 quotes by 386 authors

Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant.… — Roger McGuinn
The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember… — Brian Andreas
The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted… — Cyril Connolly
I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life — Marlon Brando
So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there… — Al Oerter
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best. — Chuck Mangione
I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity,… — Swami Vivekananda
God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient's mother, 'Don't be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.'… — Ramakrishna
I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the… — G. Willow Wilson
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'. — Larry Wall
His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the â€™80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers,… — Lou Lumenick
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of… — Henry David Thoreau
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all… — Paul Davies
My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without… — Philip Warren Anderson
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through… — Edward Gorey
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such… — William James
Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If… — Anne Fine
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch;… — Henry Ward Beecher
Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull… — Steve Albini
I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me. — Lincoln Steffens

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