“Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.” IdeasTurnsBrokenInvisibleImpressionStringsPearlsNecklacesImpressionismDispensable Author:Mu Xin
“If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.” IfsTryingHumansHas BeensFeelingsLinesBreakObjectsPaintingBrokenElementsConnectionsStringsAbstractionUnbrokenKites Author:Wu Guanzhong
“I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.” FirstsHeartLeftBehindsBoysBrokenNervousStringsTypicalFirst LoveBreakdownCharismaticBad BoyNervous Breakdown Author:Caroline Leavitt
“Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.” PeopleKnowsTryingLooksMadeDifferentWholeStoriesBigsMightTogetherLife IsNumbersPiecesBrokenLettersInfiniteTinyGiantsStringsOnce Upon A TimeBack TogetherBroken Up Author:Paul Murray
“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.” IfsThinkingNeedsEnoughWholeBigsEnergyGoneTheoryBrokenProveNotionStringsFlawsGalaxyBangsSuspiciousTemperatureSymmetryString TheoryReunitedGone Away Author:Edgar Mitchell
“I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.” FeelsPersonsGuyFieldsBrokenRootsConnectedLike MeGrassStringsCrackedLeaves Of Grass Author:John Green
“We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time” PlayLastsBrokenInstrumentsStringsLast Time Author:John Green
“Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.” GrowingBrokenWingsStringsEaglesCircusGrowing OldViolinLioness Author:Jean Rhys
“Sometimes when things break, you can hold them together for a while with string or glue or tape. Sometimes, nothing will hold what’s broken, and the pieces fly all over, and though you think you might be able to find them all again, one or two will always be missing. I flew apart. I broke. I shattered like a crystal vase dropped on a concrete floor, and pieces of me scattered all over. Some of them I was glad to see go. Some I never wanted to see again.” ThinkingTwoSometimesMightAbleWantedTogetherBreakPiecesMissingBrokenGladBrokeStringsConcreteTapeCrystalsFlewShatteredGlueVases Author:Megan Hart