Strings Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Waiting

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• All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Giving, Religion

  "Island". Book by Aldous Huxley, 1962.

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  There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

  Pythagoras

  Science, Spheres, Guitar Strings

  Quoted in Aristotle Metaphysics.

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• We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time

  John Green

  Play, Broken, Lasts

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• Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.

  Erica Jong

  Sweet, Sex, Real

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.89, Penguin

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• if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Would Be, Violin, Ache

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• I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

  Cat Stevens

  Strings Attached, Ties, Giving

  "'Music is part of God's universe'". Interview with Nigel Williamson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2005.

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• My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

  Jeff Bridges

  Wife, Kites, Let Me Go

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• According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

  Roy H. Williams

  Ocean, Space, Depth

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• In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the "Mind of God" is cosmic music resonating in 11 dimensional hyperspace.

  Michio Kaku

  Play, Symphony, Mind

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Inspiration, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

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• There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Literature, Emotion

  'Barnaby Rudge' (1841) ch. 22 (Mr Tappertit)

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• I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.

  Brian Greene

  Journey, Thinking, Long

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• The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.

  Philip Roth

  Pain, People, Secret

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Dollars, Answers, Bills

  "Bill Gates: Of Mind and Money". "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" Newspaper, May 8, 1991.

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• Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. "Will you swear?" And Myrnin said, shockingly, "I will." And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, "--frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!" and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. "Is that what you meant, my lord?

  Rachel Caine

  Dog, Witty, Cheater

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• 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

  Light, Age, Cost

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.462, Macmillan

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• 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

  Zero, Smart, Years

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• The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions; the trick to living alone up here, away from all agitating entanglements, allurements, and expectations, apart especially from one's own intensity, is to organize the silence, to think of its mountaintop plenitude as capital, silence as wealth exponentially increasing. The encircling silence as your chosen source of advantage and your only intimate.

  Philip Roth

  Pain, Thinking, People

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Roots, Broken, Guy

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• When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Mother, Husband, Pain

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• There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are unreliable; with nothing to anchor them, there is nothing to stop them drifting in opposite directions. If it is string that binds, it will eventually snap and the points will separate; if elastic, they will continue to part, further and further, until the strain reaches its limit and they are pulled back with such speed that they cannot help but collide with devastating force.

  Kate Morton

  Anchors, Opposites, Two

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Sound

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• And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Heaven, Answers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain. As a shut bud that holds a bee, I warily oped her lids: again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. And I untightened the next tress About her neck; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss . . .

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Eye, Kissing

  'Porphyria's Lover' (1842) l. 38

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