Quotes with strings

  • But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
  • All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

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  • Bernie Worrell As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
    Bernie Worrell
    American keyboardist and record producer (1944 - 2016)
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  • Brenda Lee 'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.
    Brenda Lee
    American singer (1944 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Amelia Barr But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Oh the harsh snarl of guitar strings roaring!
    Heavenly distensions of our throats!
    Trousers stiff with dirt and love! Such whoring!
    Long green slimy nights: we were like stoats.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Those days of my youth [O, Ihr Zeiten meiner Jugen
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso 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
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Marcus Aurelius 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
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • James Russell Lowell The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
    Conversations on Some of the Old Poets (1845)
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Charles Dickens There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bill Halter Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.
    Bill Halter
    American politician (1960 - )
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  • Betty Wright When I started out, even though you had your rhythm section, they were big horn sections, strings, live people laying on every part of the floor in the studio waiting for their chance to get on that one little track.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Kahlil Gibran You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Denis Diderot We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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