1.
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.
Michio Kaku
The universe is an intricately orchestrated chorus of resonating chords...we are nothing but melodies in the great cosmic song. We are simply vibrations and notes reverberating through space and time.
2.
I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.
Amedeo Modigliani
3.
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
Neal A. Maxwell
4.
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
Sam Harris
5.
Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings
John Motson
6.
Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?
Jules Shear
7.
Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.
Rumi
8.
How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?
Dov Davidoff
9.
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.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
10.
We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.
Jakob Bohme
11.
We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
Alan Moore
12.
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
Jeff Bridges
14.
[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
W. Somerset Maugham
15.
I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart
Michael Owen
16.
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.
Cassandra Clare
17.
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.
Eddie Van Halen
19.
Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one.
Rumi
20.
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.
Roger McGuinn
21.
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.
Paul Davies
22.
My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.
Chris Isaak
23.
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
Leonard Slatkin
24.
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.
Edward Witten
25.
The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.
Jackson Pearce
26.
I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.
Zacky Vengeance
27.
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley
28.
Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.
Beck
29.
God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.
Dave Van Ronk
32.
Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.
Lyndon B. Johnson
33.
Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.
Henry George Bohn
35.
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.
James Russell Lowell
36.
One's whole being vibrates like strings brushed by an invisible wind.
Peter Russell
37.
We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.
John D. Barrow
38.
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.
Edward Witten
39.
I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.
Sam Harris
41.
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.
David Cronenberg
42.
I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.
Ritchie Blackmore
43.
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
Marya Mannes
44.
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
Tommy Bolin
45.
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.
Rob Bell
46.
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
Chuck Mangione
47.
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
Guy Davenport
48.
Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.
David Eagleman
49.
I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider!
Rick Riordan
50.
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Gertrude Stein