Unstrung Quotes

#1. Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace
unstrung
Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.

Richard Henry Dana Jr.

#2. "Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as traditionally, Jim Henson Company puppeteers have. We're sort of famous for going off script a little bit and ad libbing.

Brian Henson

#3. On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply.

Edward Gorey

#4. His mind appeared unstrung, if not still more seriously affected.

Herman Melville

#5. Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.

R.A. Lafferty

#6. I had now swallowed my tea. I was mightily refreshed by the beverage; as much so as a giant with wine: it gave new tone to my unstrung nerves, and enabled me to address this penetrating young judge steadily.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. Her memories were beads jumbled loose in a box, unstrung.

Kate Maloy

#8. And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up."

Brian Henson

#9. Dearest friend, do you not see All that we perceive Only reflects and shadows forth What our eyes cannot see. Dearest friend, do you not hear In the clamor of everyday life Only the unstrung echoing fall of Jubilant harmonies. Vladimir Soloviev, Russian Gnostic and philosopher, 1892

J. Lincoln Fenn

#10. If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung

Grateful Dead

#11. He is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery. What does it mean? I did not think I should tremble in this way when I saw him, or lose my voice or the power of motion in his presence.

Charlotte Bronte

#12. Only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and controlled they seemingly may be, no one can under such circumstances be normal. Their disturbed circulation makes them cold, their distress makes them unstrung, sleepless. Persons they normally like, they often turn from.

Joan Didion

#13. O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#14. Medea is without words, without thought. She has unstrung the world, pulled some vital thread and unraveled all. Nothing to do now but hold her breath and find out whether a new world re-forms.

David Vann

#15. What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.

George Washington

#16. The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.

John Gruber

#17. Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.

Marvin Hagler

#18. I'm not anything that you think I am

Syd Barrett

#19. I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.

Christopher Nolan

#20. I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

Victoria Wood

#21. In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

Maria Semple

#22. The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.'

Bryan Adams

#23. Love is just a chemical, no matter the origin. We give it meaning by choice.

Eleanor Lamb

#24. The Garden of Gethsemane narrative gives us a vivid view of Jesus' humanity".

~R. Alan Woods [1999]

R. Alan Woods

#25. I came to believe that God has reserved the office of elder for men, and I came to this conclusion not because of what my church taught or because of cultural trends but because of intense personal study of Scripture and the work of biblical scholars and linguists much wiser and more skilled than I.

Anonymous

#26. The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity.

Corazon Aquino

#27. Keep in touch without touching

Amit Abraham

#28. There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

Francis Of Assisi

#29. There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't make us all the same. But it did affect us. It had to.

Kelly J. Cogswell