Quotes with string

  • My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
  • If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
  • After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • A. E. Housman A neck God made for other use Than strangling in a string.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • George D. Prentice A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Rohinton Mistry After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.
    Een wankel evenwicht (2010) 758
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Pele Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
    Pele
     
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  • Samuel Johnson Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arnold Schoenberg I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
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  • Brooks Robinson I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • B. B. King If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ben Marcus My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Bjork Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Philip Roth 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.
    The Human Stain (2000)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Barry Cornwall The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
    Dramatic scenes: with other poems
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Swindoll We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Ben Folds With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alan Cohen You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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