String Quotes - page 2

A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls. (Charles Stross)

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

Publilius Syrus

Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

Virginia Woolf

Ane Bow that is ay bent Worthis unsmart, and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent, In ernistfull thochtis, and in studying.

Robert Henryson

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

H. L. Mencken

There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.

Thomas Hood

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

Mark Twain

We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand. . .

Leonid Brezhnev

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley

That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99.

Larry Wall

Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that. (Gary Kildall)

The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.

Miles Davis

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

Augusten Burroughs

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

Rachel Kushner

We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.

David Levithan

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad...

Jean Rhys

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

George D. Prentice

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.

Jonny Greenwood

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.

Paul Davies

Go boldly forth, my simple lay, Whose accents flow with artless ease, Like orient pearls at random strung.

William Jones

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. (Charles Swindoll)

I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!

Lisa Edelstein

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

Elizabeth Moon

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

Andres Segovia

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

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