Strings Quotes - Page 10

• As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

  Rex Stout

  Games, Balls, Stories

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• It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dark, Past, Opposites

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• Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile. "Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me? We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings. Anyone get you a gin yet?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Self, Giving

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• Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.

  Khalil Gibran

  Space, Togetherness, Quiver

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• I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Somewhere Under, Feelings, Ribs

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• You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.

  Darren Shan

  Believe, Destiny, Thinking

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• There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Sex, Organization, Support

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Father, Lds, Soul

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• Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

  Johnny Depp

  Song, Jesus, Memories

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• When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.

  Fred Allen

  Music, Cat, Play

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• Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you.

  Barbara Johnson

  Time, Brother, Niece

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• Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

  Aldous Huxley

  Gratitude, Thinking, Tongue

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• The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

  St. Jerome

  Jesus, Animal, People

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• Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

  Emanuel Ax

  Player, Enough Time, Too Much

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• Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

  Steve Swallow

  Running, Play, Bass

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• Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

  Duncan Sheik

  Doe, Records, Woods

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• Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.

  Charlie Brooker

  Wish, Way, Boxes

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• I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever, that we'd never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they built for us in their toolshed. So broken heartstrings bled the blues, and we tried to empty ourselves so we'd feel nothing. Don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone...

  Shane Koyczan

  Lonely, Hurt, Falling In Love

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!

  Abigail Washburn

  Real, Band, Awesomeness

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• Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism - all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.

  Brian Greene

  Motivation, Inspiration, Curves

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• Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Real, Self Esteem

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book X, Chapter 38), circa 170.

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• I want him to know I love him. I want him to feel that we both tried, but this was way too big for us: we aren't going to survive this. Even if I hadn't done what I did with Mal, almost all the strings of our marriage have been severed; waiting together to say goodbye is the last one. Once it has been cut, only love will remain. And it takes more than love--no matter how fervent, deep and passionate--to keep two people together.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Love, Goodbye, Cutting

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• Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Sadness, Ties

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.34, London

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• When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss.

  Robert Greenberg

  Dental Floss, Hands, Wind

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• I want to pull very long, multi-colored strings out of my brain and place them next to a bowl of Doritos at a party

  Megan Boyle

  Party, Long, Brain

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