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“I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.”

Giving Give Me Ties Strings Strings Attached

Author:Cat Stevens

“The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.”

Together Actors Process Roles Strings Portraits Progression

Author:Meryl Streep

“I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.”

Fun Lines Strings Melody Orchestra Horns

Author:Barbra Streisand

“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”

“We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.”

Party Pieces Sea Dancing Plant Passing Passings Strings Genes Bees Organisms Dna Insects Viruses Back Again Mammals Heredity Genome Tugging Great Party

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Ends Inspiration Waiting Sound Awareness Listening Mindfulness Hearing Spending Guides Genuine Strings Pulling Through The Eyes Listen To Yourself Genuineness

Author:Howard Thurman

“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.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Done Left Changed Strings Engineers

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.”

Turns Taste Green Cooks Strings Closest Beans Cotton Nylon Green Beans Okra

Author:Robin Williams

“Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.”

Nature Century Theory Simplicity Physics Subtle Strings 20th Century Equations Elegant Describing Generalities String Theory

Author:Edward Witten

“One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.”

Important Theory Aspect Strings Predictions String Theory

Author:Edward Witten

“Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.”

Doe Principles Theory Spread Physics Uncertainty Unexpected Strings Quantum Replaced Mechanic Particles Quantum Mechanics String Theory Uncertainty Principle

Author:Edward Witten

“Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'”

Should Used Path Pieces Fashion Mines Six Models Crosses Should Have Guitar Woods Strings Guitarist Flashy Fashion Model Guitar Strings

Author:Angus Young

“Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.”

Feels Heart Sometimes Feelings Left Fashion My Heart Distance Strings Ireland Tied Cords Ribs

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.”

“We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out; Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.”

Thinking Heart Stills Moving Dies Speak Design Fairs Golden Dumb Firm Strings Fabric Woven Warp Heart Strings

Book:The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”

Book Whole Moments Universe Secret Childhood Reader Pages Aliens Instant Confused Spokes Strings That Moment Gave Up Early Childhood Ciphers

Author:Alberto Manguel

“How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.”

Hands Fall Sound Attitude Our Lives Wind Sunset Strings Gestures Echoes Weary Compulsion Dolls Furious Ravel

Author:William Faulkner

“Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter”

Thinking Firsts Humans Important Whole Stories Born Pieces Our Lives Impossible Birth Winter Setting Settings Human Life Vida Strings Knots

Book:The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.”

Ifs Would Be Strings Ache Violin

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.”

Air Invisible Fairy Strings Airplane Traveler Capricious

Author:J. Maarten Troost

“My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.”

Heart Littles Girl Break Cry My Heart Eating Strings Beans Breaking My Heart

Author:Barack Obama

“Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.”

Knows Men Writing Play Hands Passion Break Wise Draws Strings Stomach Appetite Urgent Violin Bolts Fantasia Overloaded

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.”

Bigs Choices Chance Our Lives Events Add Accidents Chains Strings Deliberate Sequence Calamity Casual

Book:A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

“The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.”

Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

Heart Trust Ethics Iron Strings Self Reliance Reliance Thyself Transcendental Transcendentalism Vibrate Trustworthiness Trust No One Self Trust

Book:Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842

“We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.”

Life Should Said Lines Gone Should Have Screens Strings Telephones Appearing

Book:How They Met and Other Stories

Source: How They Met and Other Stories

“The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.”

Children Eye Mother Animal Half Quality Motherhood Length Strings Pulling Protective Angelic Watchfulness

Author:Victor Hugo

“There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.”

Men Arms Strings Nerves Violin

Author:James O'Barr

“After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.”

Ifs Two Moments Hours Rain Sight Blue Senses Curious Broke Colour Strings Spells Captains Twists Quartets Admiral String Quartets

Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

“My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.”

Wife Let Me My Wife Strings Kites Let Me Go

Author:Jeff Bridges

“It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)”

Firsts May Steps Awareness Perception Liberation Strings Controlled First Steps Puppets Obedience To Authority Controlled Society

Author:Stanley Milgram

“Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.”

Animal Skills Percent Miracle Cooking Starting Strings Vegetables Wraps Aprons

Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.”

Way Pieces Clever Strings Labyrinth Roaming Theseus Roaming Around

Author:Geraldine McCaughrean

“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

Believe Littles Said Home Happens I Believe Simple Pleasure Wonderful Exciting Following Strings Pearls Splendid Sweetest Slipping

Book:ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.”

Form Strings Thread

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.”

Author:Khalil Gibran

“You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. "I got terrible arthuritis." "I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”

“If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.”

Ifs Knows Want Should Know How Strings Packages

Book:The Tent

Source: The Tent

“...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with them under my pillow. He said that when he came back, we would remeasure his body against the string as proof that he hadn't changed.”

Said Body Wanted Used Sleep Pieces Changed Fingers Proof Necks Strings Pillow Thighs

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.”

Writing Wells Book Humor Funny Together Known Drink Beer Strings Quotations Well Known

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God... God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial kingdom of God" -John Taylor recalls the words of Joseph Smith to the Twelve. JS manual page 231”

“Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.”

Song Voice Lays Strings

Author:Bob Dylan

“Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.”

People Mean Hard Life Is Used Fighting Bits Cases Advice Tough Intelligent Desperate Strings Meaning Life Life Is Tough Desperate Measures Desperate Times Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

Book:The Whispered Secret

Source: The Whispered Secret

“Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.”

Source: Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

“Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.”

“If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.”

Ifs Body Life Is Daughter Strings My Daughter Suspects One Word Loops Short Words

Author:Louise Erdrich

“You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.”

Way Two Together Views Logic Instruments Fishes Point Of View Holes Collections Injury Strings Tied Reverse Two Ways Lexicographer

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.”

Ifs Pain Cutting Wind Longing Blow Guides Strings

Book:The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.”

Source: The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic

“Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.”

Way Grew Sorrow Ancient Strings Loved Ones Survived Arrows Abiding Vectors

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke