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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• Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Children, Military

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope”, p.10, Crown

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

  John Green

  Play, Broken, Lasts

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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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• As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

  Roger Penrose

  Consistency, Requirements, Way

  "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

  Edward Witten

  Might, Theory, Ask Me

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• Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

  John Milton

  Iron, Soul, Tears

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 105

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• The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyone’s heart; do not look down on weaker than you. One’s sorrow at the other side of the world can make the entire world suffer; one’s happiness can make the entire world smile.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heart, Unique, Suffering

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• There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

  Marisha Pessl

  Mind, Bending, World

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• A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

  Keith Richards

  Sweet, Guitar, Smell

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• You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. "I got terrible arthuritis." "I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Jobs, Home, Writing

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• Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.

  Takuboku Ishikawa

  Taken, Cutting, Soul

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