Strings Quotes - Page 20

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

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Should, Said

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• So when I was working with Amy Winehouse on "Back To Black," you know, she had all these beautiful songs, incredibly well-written and just her on an acoustic, nylon-string guitar. And she'd play them for me, and then I would kind of drum up my idea of what I thought - make a demo with what I thought the drums should be doing, the guitars - like, quite a crude demo.

  Mark Ronson

  Beautiful, Song, Guitar

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.

  Michael Jackson

  Moments, Chords

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Apr 26, 2017

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• God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Guitar, Way

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• I learned something from a string of failed relationships. You don't see a pattern quickly. You see it over time. I learned to stop jumping in at the first sign of attraction. As soon as you're attracted to someone, you go for it - whether or not it's a good idea. Basically, just going out and getting laid.

  James McAvoy

  Jumping, Ideas, Going Out

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group.

  Terry Riley

  Writing, Player, Intuition

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• His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the ’80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.

  Lou Lumenick

  Brother, Example, Comedy

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• In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Mean, Eye, Artist

  Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”

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• Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Keys, Giving

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 8,

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• String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

  Edward Witten

  Physics, Century, Theory

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• Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.

  Edward Witten

  Strong, Cousin, Progress

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• I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

  Gary Burton

  Guitar, Style, Fans

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• One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

  Edward Witten

  Beauty, Giving, Different

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• You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Meaningful, Together, Needs

  "Anthony Horowitz: Do we still need publishers?" by Anthony Horowitz, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2012.

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• We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  War, Technology, Agriculture

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• I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough that even if you play an open string, you feel it.

  Tod Machover

  Play, Body, Size

  Source: bigthink.com

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• While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.

  China Mieville

  Recovery, Yes We Can, Smell

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• A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story’s beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.

  Ansen Dibell

  Cutting, Knives, Able

  Ansen Dibell (1999). “Elements of Fiction Writing - Plot”, p.155, Writer's Digest Books

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• Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.

  Gautama Buddha

  Serenity, Balance, States

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• Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.

  Bernie Siegel

  Morning, Winter, Jogging

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• The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes. Nuclear devices activated, and the machine keeps pushing time through the cogs, like paste into strings into paste again, and only the machine keeps using time to make time to make time. And when the machine stops, time was an illusion that we created free will.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Children, Flower, Parent

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• On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Afterlife, Gold, Purses

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial

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• There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Guitar, Two

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• When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades
  And the crowds don't remember my name
  When my hands don't play the strings the same way
  I know you will still love me the same.

  Ed Sheeran

  Memories, Hair, Hands

  Song: Thinking Out Loud

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• History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Games, Ties, History

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