Strings Quotes - Page 16

• I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

  Michael Owen

  Want, Footballer, Modelling

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• I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

  Marlon Brando

  Motivational, Dancing, Fool

  "Fictional character: Don Corleone". "The Godfather", 1972.

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• Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Loss, Reality, Years

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• Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

  Vanna Bonta

  Ribbons

  "Vanna Bonta Has Holiday Gift Advice". waleg.com. December 16, 2006.

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• I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

  Guy Davenport

  Puppets, Stage, Manipulate

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• At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.

  Terence Tao

  Probability Theory, Numbers, Space

  Terence Tao (2012). “Topics in Random Matrix Theory”, p.2, American Mathematical Soc.

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• You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Games, People, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

  William Shakespeare

  Humility

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1372

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• There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.

  Robert Breault

  Song, Art, Voice

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• Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Angel, Miracle

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• The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

  Horace

  Music, Play, Laughed

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• The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope; Blessings are plentiful and rife. More plentiful than hope.

  George Herbert

  Kings, Sunday, Men

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.73

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• The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.

  Edwin Arnold

  Wise, Eye, Men

  Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.80, Routledge

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• Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

  Mark Carwardine

  Heart, Imagination, Mind

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• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Math, Iron

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

  Elizabeth Moon

  Perfect, Bass, Accordions

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• Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I'm a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch — terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

  Rube Goldberg

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Rube Goldberg: Inventions!".

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• You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

  Don Felder

  Music, Memorable, Guitar

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• 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

  Artist, Retrospect, Late

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• Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Men, Cake, Should Have

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• We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

  John D. Barrow

  Density, Quarks, Maximum

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• Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

  Lee Smolin

  Believe, Might, Possibility

  Lee Smolin (2007). “The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings

  Macklemore

  Writing, Guitar, Play

  Song: The Town, Album: The Unplanned Mixtape, 2009

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• All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

  Guy Clark

  Guitar, Nylon, Firsts

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• I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings.

  Carlos Boozer

  Dream, Games, Shoes

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