Top 1200 High Strung Quotes & Sayings

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.

You can be an emotional, high-strung guy, and that might work for you. I think I can be reserved and quiet and play as well as the next guy.

There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.

I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it. ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode.

I can be laid back, but I'm pretty high strung.

The bow always strung ... will not do.

If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

I'm not like Woody Allen like, "Oh my god what's going to happen? Ooh Ooh Oohhh." I'm just high-strung. So I do need to do a lot of stuff.

Through my 20s, acting was the be all and end all, and I ended up feeling strung out.

The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

Yoga will uplift you if you are feeling sluggish or down, relax you if you feel high-strung, and soften your edges if you are feeling angry.

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

Dad couldn't train me. He was too high-strung, like, 'Throw your jab!' and I'd start crying.

I'm completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time.

Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?

I am high-strung and high-energy. My blood pressure is always high, and I am always excited to go to work.

We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.

My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can.

Nixon did not anticipate the extent to which Kissinger, whom he barely knew when he appointed him national-security adviser in 1969, would be envious and high-strung - a maintenance project of the first order.

You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.

I'm a high-strung personality, and I love checking off my to-do list - it's my way of relaxing. I also genuinely love working out. If I have an hour to kill, I love to go to the gym. It's a stress-release for me.

Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfection and demand that it be redone if she detected any flaws, which she invariably did. My father, in contrast, was easy going and affable and delighted in helping me with any project.

Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.

A tall blonde entered the room, wearing a yellow sash that marked her as advocate. Two men followed her, carrying papers. She was lean and long-legged, with a graceful neck and nice ankles, and William took a minute to watch her come down the aisle. She looked high-strung and difficult. Still, good legs. Mmm, smelled of mimosa, too. Expensive scent. Cerise smelled better, when clean.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.

I loved Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Rob Van Dam, I was a big fan of any of the big, flashy high flyers. They had that high flying, high intensity, and high impact style.

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness.

I'm wired to be neurotic and loud and high-strung.

I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.

I'm not anxious, I'm high-strung. I just decided that's the difference for me.

There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm goin'

The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

If I was very high-strung, I probably would've knocked a few people out by now, and, you know, you would have seen a bad side of me that probably, hopefully, I'll never show.

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

When I was a kid, we would build pillow forts. My pillow fort was always like Ice Station 9 in Antarctica. The other kids would come by and be like, 'Oh! The wind and snow is blowing.' From a young age, I wanted to be out there and surviving. I'm a high-strung, hyperactive guy.

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.