Top 100 String Of Quotes
#1. A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.
Sigmund Freud
#2. A filament of sensation sizzled between them, like a thin string of kerosene that, for the love of a match, could turn into a wall of fire.
Jodi Picoult
#3. If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature could be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
Thomas Pynchon
#4. I have to be honest, I'm not exactly impressed with your case," she said, cutting him off. "All you've got is a sporadic string of some very minor incidents. It's not as if anyone slapped an ass or grabbed a boob.
Julie James
#5. At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book - that string of confused, alien ciphers - shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.
Alberto Manguel
#6. I've been checking you out since we were freshmen."
"Why??"
"Do you even have to ask?" I laugh as a string of colorful handkerchiefs falls into my hand when I pull it from his pocket.
Cassie Mae
#7. I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.
Drew Barrymore
#8. What Ann Druyan said: Compressed into a minute-long segment, the brain waves of a woman newly in love sound like a string of firecrackers exploding.
Jenny Offill
#9. Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you.
Wendy Mass
#10. I'm starting to think there isn't a yet, only a never ending string of somedays.
Emily Hemmer
#11. A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
Paul Scofield
#12. You can't turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.
Peter Watts
#13. Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.
Dr. Seuss
#14. Subjective terms, you are consciousness itself - you are not the next, evanescent image or string of words that appears in your mind. Not seeing it arise, however, the next thought will seem to become what you are.
Sam Harris
#16. 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 people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.
Obert Skye
#17. I've got a string of disastrous relationships behind me. I don't think I'm an easy person to live with.
Julia Sawalha
#18. Every time you wake up, you let fly the most marvelous string of curses. It's never the same twice, do you know that? It's so intriguing. You're like a rooster that crows blasphemy.
Tessa Dare
#19. Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe that's bound by the elastic string of time. He said that one should look from the tide pool to the stars, and then back again in wonder.
Robyn Schneider
#20. I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.
Taron Egerton
#21. A man who hasn't left behind him a string of broken women has hardly been alive.
Hanif Kureishi
#22. Your so-called "self" is a composite superimposed on the activity of many competing subpersonalities or agents. What you perceive as your consciousness is a string of temporary heroes rising above those they have defeated. And so you seek out heroes in the common story of your race.
Paul McAuley
#23. The more you look into pigs the more you realize quite how everywhere they are. People come in contact with parts of pigs probably between 20 and 50 times a day. And that's before you even eat your dinner. And yet we just have a long string of negative words about them.
Herbert
#24. A string of recent breath-taking discoveries has forces us to acknowledge that amazingly simple and far-reaching natural laws govern the structure and evolution of all the complex networks that surround us.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
#25. People would far rather believe a lurid lie than a sorry string of accidents. Would far rather believe the world is full of evil than full of bad luck, selfishness and stupidity.
Joe Abercrombie
#26. The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
Mark Helprin
#27. For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'
Allyn Rachel
#28. From love's plectrum arises
the song of the string of life
Love is the light of life
love is the fire of life
Muhammad Iqbal
#29. A book about courage-a long string of tiny courageous steps. It is also about hope and faith and love. It is modest, careful and joyous. I do not see how any attentive reader could fail to be touched, awed and encouraged." Sara Maitland, Author
Alice Warrender
#30. There are always those ifs when something goes wrong. We can't blame ourselves. It's just a bunch of little choices that don't mean anything till the shit hits the fan, and then you look back and see how you got there. And you find a whole string of ifs going back forever.
Richard Kelly
#31. I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
Daphne Du Maurier
#32. He held to it in the way of a man who holds the string of a kite that is so high he can't see it anymore, knowing that any moment it may break and the only way he will know it has broken will be by the sudden ripple of the string as it dances slowly groundward.
Steve Erickson
#33. I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.
Caroline Leavitt
#34. I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
Bill Walton
#35. I dropped a word from the string of negative adjectives that had trailed behind me like tin cans behind the village idiot. Unappreciated, unloved, unmarried. But no longer unpublished.
Francine Prose
#36. After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.
Rohinton Mistry
#37. The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.
Joshua Foer
#38. If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of which can be discovered by looking them up in a dictionary, leading to more words that can be looked up in turn. There is no exit from the dictionary.
Louis Menand
#39. There was no speaking among the string of riders. The sharp cold, the fatigue of the journey, and a new sensation of a catching in the breath, partly as if they had just emerged from very clear crisp water, and partly as if they had been sobbing, kept them silent.
Charles Dickens
#40. Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.
Mary Karr
#41. I can't say what my first thought was as I sunk below the surface, because it was mostly a string of four-letter words.
Rachel Hawkins
#42. You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies
Fred Munoz
#43. An endless, meaningless string of apologies signals a failure to change one's own behavior. What matters is not whether the person was authentic or "really meant it" in those passionate expressions of remorse. All that counts is whether that person follows through so there is no repeat performance.
Anonymous
#44. Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning
Arlene Goldbard
#45. Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
Damien Chazelle
#46. We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time
John Green
#47. What can an artist use but materials, such as they are? What can he light but the short string of his gut, and when that's burnt out, any muck ready to hand?
Annie Dillard
#48. Knowing a person isn't like knowing a string of facts. It's more like...a feeling.
Madeleine Wickham
#49. Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.
George Takei
#50. Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.
Warren Buffett
#51. I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange 'cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know.
Hunter Hayes
#52. But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.
Gregg Easterbrook
#53. I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.
Emmylou Harris
#54. Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well. - Joe Vitale
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.
Walter Inglis Anderson
#55. The truth cannot be woven out of a string of lies.
Fred Munoz
#56. The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads
Fulton J. Sheen
#57. It's true. Every time you wake up, you let fly the most marvelous string of curses. It's never the same twice, do you know that? It's so intriguing. You're like a rooster that crows blasphemy."
"Oh, there's a cock crowing, all right," he muttered.
Tessa Dare
#58. If ever I was going to listen to a string of swearwords sitting next to a ninety-four-year-old, I'm glad that ninety-four-year-old was my grandfather. Not that he swears a lot. It's just that he can take it. And, he is currently laughing so hard that his eyes are watery.
A. J. Jacobs
#59. lucky life isn't one long string of horrors.
Gerald Stern
#60. A string of very un-angelic curse words come to mind.
Cynthia Hand
#61. There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.
Tony Hale
#62. I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
Boz Scaggs
#63. In due course, I came to classify writers into two categories: those who enabled you to arrive on time and those who caused you to be late. The Russian authors earned me a whole string of detentions.
Jean-Michel Guenassia
#64. If Jack Nicklaus had to play my tee shots, he couldn't break 80. He'd be a pharmacist with a string of drugstores in Ohio.
Lee Trevino
#65. A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is.
Simon Napier-Bell
#66. Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.
C. JoyBell C.
#68. The guy snarled out a string of profanity describing his night with Conn's mother.
"Sounds about right," Conn said, but Matt didn't miss the glint in Conn's eye. "She's been dead for twenty years, but dead's probably the only way you get laid.
Anne Calhoun
#69. For all these years, their whole lives almost, she and Alex had been circling each other. During college, Keisha had watched as Alex came out and brought home a string of skinny, whiny girlfriends who wrote poetry and had weird dietary restrictions.
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
#70. subscribed to the theory that life consisted of a long string of miseries, tolerated only because the alternative was worse.
Amy Fecteau
#71. Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.
Leo Buscaglia
#72. Single moment in a string of infinite moments ... and that they too shall pass.
Yasmin Mogahed
#73. Time moved differently for us that spring: A string of long afternoons was as good as a year.
Karen Thompson Walker
#74. Whatever sentence I extract whole and entire from this cauldron is only a string of six little fish that let themselves be caught while a million others leap and sizzle, making the cauldron bubble like boiling silver, and slip through my fingers.
Virginia Woolf
#75. The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water ... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky ... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.
Leonard Bernstein
#76. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in it's focus. To find oneself trapped in any one bead, no matter what it's hue, can be deadly.
Maggie Nelson
#77. I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance diva; another thought I should do Rock n' Roll; and one thought I shouldn't even be singing at all!
Alison Moyet
#78. Led Zeppelin was the rock band's rock band, but it was Plant who made it special. He had the knack of taking a seemingly inconsequential string of words, adding a searing shriek, and knocking the listener back on his heels. This was no less impressive on stage than in the restaurant.
Andre The BFG
#79. I'm in awe of you, Rowan Palotay," he said softly. "And plan to make love to you for the rest of the night, but right now, I want you to be a good cowgirl and ride me."
His finger hooked around the string of her panties, and he tugged them down and off. "The boots stay on.
Robin Bielman
#80. In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories ... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.
Aloe Blacc
#81. I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
George McGovern
#82. In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#83. Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
Vincent Van Gogh
#84. A string of bright white buildinh, glistening like teeth over the slurping mouth of the ocean.
Lauren Oliver
#85. She shut the door and put the string of keys back on top of the kitchen doorframe. 'You didn't lock it,' said Coraline. Her mother shrugged. 'Why should I lock it?' She asked. 'It doesn't go anywhere.' Coraline didn't say anything.
Neil Gaiman
#86. A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.
Christopher K. Germer
#87. The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for not taking the world too seriously, its relentless heartbreak notwithstanding.
Richard Russo
#88. It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value ...
Jonathan Franzen
#89. Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother's surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though ... it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.
Trudi Canavan
#90. A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.
Harvey MacKay
#91. I felt tears coming and for some reason, buried my head in Iain's chest. It was firm and muscled and he smelt so wonderful.
I realised what I was doing and pulled away, but a big string of snot hung between my nose and his shirt pocket.
Robert Bryndza
#92. Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses.
Chris Hadfield
#93. It is not proper for man's life to be a circle, she thought, or a string of circles dropping off like zeros behind him - man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum.
Ayn Rand
#94. Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles.
Robert Breault
#95. I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
Billy Corgan
#96. The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.
Michael Specter
#97. If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as a result of what happened before, not just as a string of unrelated events, then the question doesn't come up.
Missy Mazzoli
#98. And yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.
Jodi Picoult
#99. Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents
Orhan Pamuk
#100. I couldn't imagine how i would get from here to there. i couldn't imagine living through a whole string of identical days.
S.J. Watson
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