Stringed Quotes

#1. Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.

Gregory Maguire

#2. People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#4. Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

Feist

#5. Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#6. My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

Carl Sandburg

#7. Within the body there is played
Music unending, though without stringed instruments
That music of the Word pervades the entire creation
Who listens to it is freed from all illusion

Kabir

#8. Your mind is like a parachute : it's no use unless it's open. -the Spectator, 1883

Samantha Cote

#9. If a person gets rid of any weight, or girth, or fat, it isn't lost
it is fought off, beaten off.

Samuel G. Blythe

#10. Reese sucked in a breath and played faster, hurling the anger through his fingers until it spun all his
fear, all his rage, into the gentle voice of music.

Willowy Whisper

#11. The internet is 95 percent porn and spam

Margaret Atwood

#12. It does seem about the time to learn a musical instrument. He flourished his new prize, a little stringed instrument that looked like a cousin of the lute that the lute was embarrassed to be related to.

Cassandra Clare

#13. Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

John Henry Newman

#15. Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies, or by telling him he has been elected to a bishopric, if a churchman.

Henri De Mondeville

#16. There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, grass, and wood-wind, on which St. John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness ...

H.P. Lovecraft

#17. Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.

Jeff Buckley

#18. Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#19. Where? I couldn't find anything on Meg's computer. I found the new email address All BS

Gayle Forman

#20. In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence

Ry Cooder

#21. The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.

Hafez

#22. I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

Idina Menzel

#23. Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Simone Weil