Strings Quotes - Page 36

• And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Kites, Months, Hours

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.78, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

  John Muir

  Cells, Tree, Music And Life

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir: Spiritual Writings”, p.64, Orbis Books

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• All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

  Joe Hill

  Life, Together, World

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• Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Cutting, Men

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• Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Farewell, Saying Goodbye

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• A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

  Sam Harris

  Long, Puppets

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• Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Religious

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.437

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• If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Creative, Opponents

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• I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

  Muddy Waters

  Christmas, Running, Crazy

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• If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

  George H. W. Bush

  People, Lamps, Done

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• I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

  Brooks Robinson

  Baseball, Men, Games

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• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

  George D. Prentice

  Witty, Kindness, Broken

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• Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning

  Arlene Goldbard

  Writing, Giving, Miracle

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• Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

  John Banville

  Writing, Civilization, Long

  "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and it was a mask where you cut out the eye holes and put a string through the side. It makes me feel like I'm 11 years old all over again.

  Mark Hamill

  Eye, Cutting, Years

  "Mark Hamill Makes ‘Biggest Gamble of Career’ with ‘Sushi Girl’". Interview with David Onda, my.xfinity.com. December 6, 2012.

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• At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

  David Levien

  Remember, Moments, Ends

  David Levien (2008). “City of the Sun: Frank Behr”, p.401, Random House

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• To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Writing, Together

  Mark Twain (2016). “The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories”, p.179, Xist Publishing

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• We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Trying, Legs, Spirit

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.125, Vintage

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• Love is...like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spring, Price Tag

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• Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?

  David Steindl-Rast

  Wind, Independence, Different

  David Steindl-rast (2010). “Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed”, p.137, Image

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• When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Kids, Cutting, Records

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• What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Knowing, Giving, Expectations

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Dec 16, 2011

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• Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

  Mary Karr

  Blow, Air, Hands

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• I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider!

  Rick Riordan

  Spiders, Said, Pulling

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• Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.

  Tom Waits

  Ocean, Rocks, Hands

  Song: There's Only Alice, Album: Alice, 2002

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