String Quotes

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.
Roy H. Williams

Nature, Energy, Matter

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

Hanging, Bacon, Cured

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
Wynton Marsalis

Second, Played, Violin

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
Andres Segovia

Different, Small, Guitar

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
Barry Cornwall

Woman, Earth, Tongue

I like to keep almonds in my pantry. I also like to keep fruit on hand, just different types depending on the season. And string cheese - that's a really good one.
Alison Sweeney

Good, Different, Keep

What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.
Paul Feig

Successful, Joke, Story

I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
Larry Hagman

Live, Wonderful, Personal

Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
Naveen Jain

Success, Business, Company

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Time, Done, Before

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.
Joshua Foer

Future, Today, Forget

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.
Dick Dale

Philosophy, Sound, Bigger

I can fish from a stick and a string.
Giancarlo Esposito

I've cried over string arrangements.
Janelle Monae

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.
Paul Davies

Nature, General, Theory

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
Yo-Yo Ma

Trust, Time, Deep

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
Duncan Sheik

British, Records, Wood

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.
Anthony Horowitz

Time, Together, Again

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
Rex Stout

Love, Game, Writer

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.
Brian Ferneyhough

Different, Two, Both

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
Chuck Mangione

Best, Writing, Try

I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!
Hoda Kotb

Christmas, Once, Found

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
Edward Witten

Beauty, Music, Different

We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.
Jay Kay

Great, Musicians, Written

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.
Emmylou Harris

Together, Older, Stuff

About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.
Terry Kath

Sometimes, Next, Fat

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

Perfect, Works, Bass

I have a good family and I like to be home with them. The older I get, the lazier I get, and the more content I am to sit at home and eat string cheese.
Michael Ian Black

Family, Good, Home

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.
Kevin Eubanks

Find, Guitar, Rich

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.
Jules Shear

Open, Bottom, Tuned

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