Strings Quotes

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.

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?

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.

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

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

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

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.

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.

A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one.

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.

I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

I've plenty of bows to my string.

I've cried over string arrangements.

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

One's whole being vibrates like strings brushed by an invisible wind.

We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

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.

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

If a string has one end, it has another.

True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

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

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.