Strings Quotes
724 quotes by 577 authors
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Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse…
— Obert Skye
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Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in…
— Jonathan Kozol
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If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so…
— Louise Erdrich
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pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the…
— Charles Bukowski
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You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch…
— Julian Barnes
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If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose…
— Khaled Hosseini
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For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived:…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc.…
— John Green
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He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon…
— John Green
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We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
— Alan Moore
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And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross…
— John Green
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in…
— William Blake
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When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in…
— Markus Zusak
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Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing…
— Tom Stoppard
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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat…
— Nicole Krauss
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So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.
— Suzanne Collins
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love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each…
— Khalil Gibran
Who Wrote These Strings Quotes
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