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“In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.”

Two Strings Coincidence Knots Acoustics Tangled Pun Coincidence In Life

“What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.”

Universe Strings Melody Cosmic Symphony Membranes

Author:Michio Kaku

“I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.”

Father Boys Likes Strings My Boys

Book:The World of Lincoln Steffens

Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

“There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.”

Heart Born Strings Heart Strings

Book:A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory

Source: A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory

“I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.”

Thirds Track Strings Runners Quarterback

Author:Bob Seger

“I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.”

Ifs Whole Break Guitar Strings

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.”

Heart Grief Cutting Silent Strings Heart Strings

Book:The Broken Heart

Source: The Broken Heart

“We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.”

Soul Break Wise Wounds Tension Strings Unnatural Being Wise Recreation

Book:Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's hero

Source: Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's hero

“If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles.”

Ifs Science Sides Millions Normal Six Distance Miles Chains Strings Atoms Cubes Distance Apart

Author:Francis William Aston

“The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like celery, and great sheaves of young, purplish, sea-dust-coloured artichokes . . . long strings of dried figs, mountains of big oranges, scarlet large peppers, a large slice of pumpkin, a great mass of colours and vegetable freshness. . . .”

Long Ends Bigs Young Dark White Darkness Sea Streets Mountain Mass Green Dust Colour Abundance Shops Strings Vegetables Orange Freshness Scarlet Peppers Pumpkin Figs Celery Artichokes

Book:Sea and Sardinia

Source: Sea and Sardinia

“Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.”

Giving Care Joy Given Expectations Motive Agendas Strings Caregiving Strings Attached Joy Of Giving No Strings Attached

Author:Gary Zukav

“I don't feel that comfortable being on the runway with a G-string. I shoot G-strings with Victoria's Secret, but on the runway... It's really about the moment. I work with professionals. Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.”

People Ifs Feels Looks Moments Perfect Secret Comfortable Strings Victoria Runway Victoria's Secret

Author:Alessandra Ambrosio

“My art side is free and there are no strings attached.”

Art Sides Strings Strings Attached No Strings Attached

Author:Swizz Beatz

“In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.”

Thinking Writing Soul Stories Able Wanted Song Lines Emotion Messages Hip Hop Accomplish Focused Singers Hips Hops Strings Delivering

Author:Aloe Blacc

“I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.”

Knows Needs Trying I Can Play Helping Home Can Do My Own Crazy Like You Computer Guitar Noise Help Me Strings Arrangements Drummer

Author:Steve Burns

“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.”

Philosophy Sound Bigger Woods Strings Smallest Gauges

Author:Dick Dale

“I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.”

Writing Mean Seems Together Night Bits Hollywood Performances Forgotten Strings Saturday Sitcom Saturday Night Saturday Night Live

Author:Joyce DeWitt

“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.”

Book Facts Today Imagination Forget Wonder Easier Importance Impact Strings Ipads

Author:Joshua Foer

“I can fish from a stick and a string.”

I Can Sticks Fishes Strings

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“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.”

People Way States Use Culture Rich Picks Instruments Fingers Guitar Japan Strings Spain

Author:Kevin Eubanks

“Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.”

Law Poor Benefits Connected Strings Elites Rent Control

Author:Larry Elder

“Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.”

Should Wife Relationship Bed My Wife Favors Strings Should I Whips Venomous

Author:Rod Stewart

“Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.”

Hard Suffering Family Guilt Guides Strings

Author:Bob Dylan

“It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.”

Knows Said Two Mother Family Like You Hey Strings Hey You Wild Things

Author:Tone-Loc

“God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.”

Sin Cutting Who You Are Drawing Ties Strings Knots Wrongdoing Knowing Who You Are

Author:Meister Eckhart

“I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.”

Years Used Stage Cameras Seven Tricks Strings Seven Years

Author:David Copperfield

“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.”

Want Stories Next Audience Successful Jokes Track Strings Fatigue

Author:Paul Feig

“I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.”

Want Feels Sometimes Play Kids Today Bits Sound Band Guitar Traditional Strings Punk Embarrassed Sections Grandparent Old Fashioned Orchestra Ungrateful

Author:Jonny Greenwood

“Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.”

Ifs Want Firsts Kind Children Born Creativity Baby Periods Blessed Strings Pulling Surreal

Author:Seth Gabel

“I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and it was a mask where you cut out the eye holes and put a string through the side. It makes me feel like I'm 11 years old all over again.”

Feels Years Facts Eye Faces Sides Cutting Boxes Holes Mask Strings One Time Cereal

Author:Mark Hamill

“There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.”

Said Choices Strings

Author:Tony Hale

“I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.”

Remember Records Guitar Stores Strings Remember When Djs Guitar Strings

Author:Jam Master Jay

“Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.”

My Favorite Traditional Piano Strings Orchestra Cuban Flutes Haitian Cuban Music Romantic Music

Author:Rachel Kushner

“I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.”

Firsts Real Five Six Fingers Strings Rock And Roll Dimes

Author:Bryan Adams

“Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.”

Thinking Sometimes Play Wonder Six Strings Rock And Roll

Author:Bryan Adams

“I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.”

Bigs School Grew Band Grew Up Program Incredibles Strings Chorus

Author:Alison Krauss

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