Language Quote by Donald Barthelme

“If language A has an operator for removing spaces from strings and language B doesn’t, that probably doesn’t make A more powerful, because you…

— Paul Graham

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as…

— Patience Strong

A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it…

— Henry David Thoreau

So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was…

— Molly Antopol

[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that…

— Jonathon Keats

On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.

— Charlie Brooker

Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

— Dante Alighieri

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

— William McFee

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

— Barbara Kingsolver

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

— Henry George Bohn

I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together…

— Joyce DeWitt