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Source: The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)

“The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope; Blessings are plentiful and rife. More plentiful than hope.”

Men Together Heaven Wife Kings Blessing Eternal Glorious Sunday Strings Gates Sabbath Bracelet Plentiful Sabbath Day

Book:The Works of George Herbert: Poems

Source: The Works of George Herbert: Poems

“There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.”

Ifs Reason Cases Modern Wind Balance Equal Obvious Combination Strings Interpretation Satisfying Composition Orchestra Adapted Modern Music

Author:John Philip Sousa

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

Shoes Ties Strings Civility Careless Wilde Cuffs

Author:Robert Herrick

“We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.”

Hands Destiny Fate Strings Puppets

Book:The Marrow of Tradition

Source: The Marrow of Tradition

“We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.”

Trying Spirit Endure Killing Legs Native Strings Howl Wildness

Book:An Unspoken Hunger

Source: An Unspoken Hunger

“How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?”

Reading Sound Imagination Music Musician Musical Score Strings Flutes Oboes

Book:Consciousness Explained

Source: Consciousness Explained

“It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting”

Ability Balls Court Senses Opponents Tennis Cheating Strings Tennis Courts

Author:John Newcombe

“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.”

Ideas Turns Broken Invisible Impression Strings Pearls Necklaces Impressionism Dispensable

Author:Mu Xin

“People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.”

People Want Self Energy Forever Teacher Students Concepts Discovery Self Discovery Enlightened Strings Guru Abusive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?”

Ifs Way Facts Today Christian Faces Sound Church Results Attitude Liberty Discipline Musician Instruments Luxury Strings Preacher Solo Careless Violin

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.”

Ifs Hands Future Machines Fingers Strings Print Complication Premonition

Author:Jack Johnson

“The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.”

Giving Running Chance Humorous Reaching Strings Dozen Vacuums Examining

Author:Rich Hall

“Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.”

Teaching Enlightenment Strings Get Back Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.”

Way Comedy Honest Strings Delicate Strings Attached No Strings Attached

Author:Ivan Reitman

“There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.”

People Want Theory Good Things Strings String Theory

Author:Antony Garrett Lisi

“You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string”

Men Fall Strings Puppets Stand For Something

Author:Aaron Tippin

“Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?”

Lows Bottom Strings

Author:Jules Shear

“The bottom string is tuned to an open G.”

Bottom Strings

Author:Jules Shear

“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.”

Ifs Trying Humans Has Beens Feelings Lines Break Objects Painting Broken Elements Connections Strings Abstraction Unbroken Kites

Author:Wu Guanzhong

“Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.”

Knows Women Pleasure Study Position Instruments Strings Delightful Trembling Keyboards Capricious

Book:Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life

Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life

“Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.”

Writing Different Ends Whole Stories Running Together Stuff Subjects Approach Series Bunch Strings Good Writing

Book:Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

“The strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning.”

Needs Past Strings Burned Our Past New Beginnings

Book:Invisible Acts of Power: The Divine Energy of a Giving Heart

Source: Invisible Acts of Power: The Divine Energy of a Giving Heart

“Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.”

Life Poor Our Lives Skills Notes Tone Strings Shallow Symphony Great Music Harps

Book:Songs, Legends and Ballads

Source: Songs, Legends and Ballads

“I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.”

Thinking Knows Mean Voice Wind Instruments Jazz Strings Versus Horns Bass Violin Trumpets Wind Instruments

Author:Debbie Harry

“Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.”

Art I Can Paint Shoes Guts Strings Lard

Author:George Luks

“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!”

Men Giving Said Hands Minutes Arms Fine Give Me Moved Coffee Fishing Strings Mechanism Fifteen Props Rigged Strings Attached Nylon

Author:Irvin Kershner

“I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.”

Thinking Records Listening Band Folks Singers Teenager Strings

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy -- comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.”

Nations Simple Liberty Crime Policy Drug Necks Strings Public Policy Narcotics Strings Attached

Author:Joel Miller

“When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.”

Play Half Instruments Guitar Tunes Strings Other Half Tuning

Author:Pete Seeger

“The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.”

Character Shapes Intellect Noses Length Strings Tape Scope Physiognomy

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”

Should Poet Criticism Strings Rough Diamond Pearls Old Fashioned Nuggets

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.”

Ifs Thinking Want Has Beens Matter Earth Together Speak Water Inspired Stuck Strings Composer Composition Paragraph Flour Tchaikovsky

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.”

Men Law Desire Passion Women Pleasure Struggle Land Taste Overcoming Obstacles Flesh Hats Strings Conventions Tied Veils Breeze Softness Subjection

Book:Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.”

Attraction Visible Strings Compelling

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London . And the joke of it was that the man who went out to look for adventure only saw a bit of the game, and I who sat in my chambers saw it all and pulled the strings. 'They also serve who only stand and wait,' you know.”

Knows Men Looks Games Bits Waiting Saws He Man Adventure Jokes Exciting London Chiefs Sat Strings Chamber

Book:The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume

Source: The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume

“What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other universes? Can you go through a black hole? Can you warp the fabric of space and time and meet your mother before you were born? These are all questions that in principle string theory should be able to answer.”

Thinking Should May Able Mother Universe Black Born Space Answers Principles Theory Fundamentals Holes Strings Fabric Time And Space Black Hole Warp String Theory

Author:Michio Kaku

“Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.”

“There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.”

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