Top 856 String Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

I can fish from a stick and a string.

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

I'm easy to pick on because I'm a string bean.

A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

If a string has one end, it has another.

We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.

I've plenty of bows to my string.

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

Versatility is an extra string to a player's bow.

We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

I've Got the World on a String.

It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together - the incompetence of all of their governments...The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what's the difference? It's corrupt! It's the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there's a missile coming out.

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.

We need a theory that goes before the Big Bang, and that's String Theory. String Theory says that perhaps two universes collided to create our universe, or maybe our universe is butted from another universe leaving an umbilical cord. Well, that umbilical cord is called a wormhole.

You can't go wrong with a Western. I made a string of them.

I like art with a visible string to the world.

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

I was a third string guy for a couple of years.

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one.

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

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

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

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

And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.

The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.

The Big Bang has gone away, but as far as Super String, that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with the notion of Big Bang, which if it were true, starts out with incredibly high temperatures. So they think [we] need to get these high temperatures for this broken symmetry; all this broken symmetry reunited, and we do not have enough energy in the whole galaxy to get to those temperatures, to prove their point. To me, that is the single flaw in Super String theory.

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Well, they had to have me in the G-string because this is PG-13, right?

I've cried over string arrangements.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Every paper girl needs at least one string.

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.

First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.

We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!

It takes a lot of energy to manipulate someone and keep them on a string.

Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.