Top 100 Quotes About Strings
#1. Sometimes she was seized with hallucinations and thought she was buried in some vault together with a lot of puppet-like corpses which nodded their heads and moved their legs and arms when you pulled the strings.
Emile Zola
#2. The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.
Gerald Massey
#3. As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.
Christina Westover
#4. Lay down the song you strum,
And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum.
Bob Dylan
#5. I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#6. As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.
Daniel Cawdry
#7. Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.
Lars Von Trier
#8. He fell like a marionette with the strings cut. Now!
Michael Grant
#9. I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.
Mike Colter
#10. We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.
Kevin McCarthy
#11. In the darkness of night when universe sleeps
You come and play with my strings
No one can see or feel it but I do
You are my love.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Needless to say, playing these things hurt, but it was a hurt like tender fingers on lute strings. I bled a bit and hoped that I would callous soon.
Patrick Rothfuss
#13. Maybe someday, as the knots became unraveled, this moment would wrap around him, tying him to her. Or maybe her love would simply loosen the strings, freeing him to walk away.
Amy Harmon
#14. I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.
Darius Khondji
#15. True Freedom can only exist when one recognizes that their strings have been pulled - and they take action to stand in the light of Truth and own themselves.
Dana Gore
#16. What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings ... we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.
Michio Kaku
#17. Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.
Jeffrey Thomas
#18. Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
Henry Fielding
#19. As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.
Kahlil Gibran
#20. Almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, and that considerable suffering hangs on those necklace strings.
Victoria Finlay
#21. You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.
Karen Quan
#22. I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
Eddie Van Halen
#23. What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
Nicholas Sparks
#24. You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
Kahlil Gibran
#25. I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
Laurie Anderson
#26. Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
Larry Elder
#27. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our stead.
George R R Martin
#28. My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.
Emilyann Girdner
#29. No strings attached, your love is so WiFi.
Drake
#30. I was shooting a scene in my new film, No Strings Attached, in which I say to Natalie Portman, If you miss me. you can't text, you can't email, you can't post it on my Facebook wall. If you really miss me, you come and see me.
Ashton Kutcher
#31. My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
Brian Eno
#32. It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.
M. Ward
#33. Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did while rendering my heart strings, you thought you were only uprooting your bad propensities.
Charlotte Bronte
#34. Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
Novalis
#35. 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 instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#36. I've carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it's on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
Guy Davenport
#37. Real love isn't a payment. It isn't a response to your accomplishments or anything else. It's a gift without strings.
Lisa Wingate
#38. When Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique ...
Brad Paisley
#39. Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached.
Catherine Ponder
#41. That was the first sound in the song of love!
Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound.
Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
And play the prelude of our fate. We hear
The voice prophetic, and are not alone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#42. I have never really thought of him as a person, either ... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn't feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.
John Green
#43. Whoever comes in the door is usually disappointing, but there is always a chance otherwise. And when a key hits the lock, all the heads come up like there's strings on them.
Ken Kesey
#44. The appearance of mediocrity is often useful in life because it weakens tautly strung strings and sobers up people's self-confident or self-forgetful feelings, reminding them how close they are to mediocrity as well.
Ivan Turgenev
#45. Her lips remind me of kite strings and I find myself thinking about panda bears. Panda bears do not fly kites, I tell myself.
'I thought you were dead,' she says.
Maybe if you taped a kite to a panda paw and scared the panda so that it started running, the kite might start to lift off.
Michael Ian Black
#47. The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.
Saadi
#48. I guess I should sat thank you, for cutting all my strings. But if it's all the same to you, I wish you'd left my wings.
Pleasefindthis
#49. I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
Cat Stevens
#50. I don't play the guitar. That would mean I wanted people to hear it. I just strum a few strings to make myself feel better. It fills my silence.
Annie Hughes
#51. Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!
John Grier Hibben
#53. I was a puppet on the strings to my cravings and desires.
Evan Sutter
#54. Maybe it was time to cut the strings of everyone's expectations and free-fall for once in her life
Miranda Liasson
#55. You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.
Keith Morris
#56. Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.
Julian Morris
#57. I want to be tangled up in all her strings.
Shayla Black
#58. It was the moment of early spring like the pause when a fiddler has lifted his bow and holds it over the strings, ready to call forth the music.
Rosslyn Elliott
#59. 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 and separate and then come back together.
John Green
#60. All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Edmund Waller
#61. I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!
Tommy Dorsey
#62. Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.
Joan Jett
#63. The lieutenant, returning from a tour after a bandage, produced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and portentous oaths suited to the emergency. Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over the backs of his men, and it was evident that his previous efforts had in nowise impaired his resources.
Stephen Crane
#64. 'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music.
Pierre Boulez
#65. From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
Sam Harris
#66. I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?
Rumi
#68. I consider the electric guitar to be like a drum with strings. It became the drum of the Baby Boom generation. And the drum has always been the center of the tribe, a new electronic tribe.
John Trudell
#69. Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.
Thomas Jefferson
#70. Her technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that even her mistakes sounded intentional, every note played without apology.
Tess Gerritsen
#71. He went to the window seat, picked up a harp, and ran his fingers lightly over its silvery strings. Sweet sadness filled the room as man and wife and babe faded like the morning mist, only the music lingering behind to speed her on her way.
George R R Martin
#72. Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.
Jacob Braude
#73. Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she
sings.
D.H. Lawrence
#74. Real thick strings - your hands start to get fatigued. As much as you practice, and as much experience as you have, and as long as you've been playing, there is a fatigue point during the show, as with anything that's physical. So I wanted to basically pace myself better.
John Petrucci
#75. There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.
AnnaLynne McCord
#76. Physical body is just an instrument, through which you experience life. You have the awareness field, along with the physical body to experience life, while the entire major functions of the physical body, is performed by the subtle strings of the soul.
Roshan Sharma
#77. The opening notes of a song began, some plucking of guitar strings. I knew the melody. It was Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved." As pop songs went, it was pretty damn good, a bit of a favorite of mine.
Kylie Scott
#78. I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together - but that seemed to cheesy to say, and anyway, she was standing up.
John Green
#79. A wind starts to blow, without feelings,
A song falls in love, without singing,
A life will begin in melodies of the strings,
May you find all pleasure of the light,
God bless, Warrior of Light!
Santosh Kalwar
#80. Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile.
"Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me?
We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings.
Anyone get you a gin yet?
Jeaniene Frost
#81. I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the puppeteer pulling the strings.
L. Duarte
#82. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
George Eliot
#83. You be careful. I'd take you myself, but I'm busy as a cat in a mess of guitar strings.
Stephen King
#84. We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
Georg Buchner
#85. In the middle of the night, when Laila woke up thirsty, she found their hands still clamped together, in the white-knuckle, anxious way of children clutching balloon strings.
Khaled Hosseini
#86. He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in the spring verdure, which was too young; and the hidden strings in his breast began to quiver; and to sound.
This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul.
Halldor Laxness
#87. When I first heard about Beverly Hills Chihuahua, I thought, no. This, this is ridiculous. And then you read the script and you close the script and you go, "They aren't going to be able to do that with real dogs. How are they going to do that?" You're going to see the strings. But they did.
George Lopez
#88. Lives are made of strings of moments, and every once in a while, one of those moments is pivotal and defining. It changes everything, alters you so completely that when you look back, there's a clear before and after
Elizabeth Norris
#89. Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#90. I take out my book, glad to have a few minutes to study the diagram on time travel and string theory. But before I can build a time machine out of strings, I need to figure out what the heck they are talking about.
Wendy Mass
#91. Fishing is like watching baseball, he says, in that it takes such total concentration that you shouldn't even be noticing little details like your arms and legs and head and mind and the miles- long strings of questions inside it.
David James Duncan
#92. You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.
Don Felder
#93. Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?
Jules Shear
#94. The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.
Jimmy Page
#95. The low E is at the top, the second string is A, then it's D, G, B, and the last one is high E." A mnemonic device he once heard came to mind and, plucking the strings, he said, "Eddie Ate Dynamite ... Good Bye Eddie,.
Rachel Harris
#96. Evelyn suspected there was never true equality in marriage. Someone always had stronger feelings, or held the purse strings, or was more persuasive, powerful, and pushy.
Victoria Helen Stone
#97. You spend so much time hating the fact that April behaves more like a mother than a sister, but you're the one who's holding onto the apron strings every time she tries to cut them.
Nicola Sinclair
#98. Then slowly, as his erratic shape approached the next guttering aura he would begin by degrees to become a silhouette, until immediately before the candle he would for a moment appear like an inky scarecrow, a mantis of pitch-black cardboard worked with strings.
Mervyn Peake
#99. There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
Howard Thurman
#100. Fun was fun and Sam was strung like a violin. I could play sweet music when I plucked at some of her strings.
Tijan
