#string

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#forces #only #our #pulled #puppets

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. ↗

— David Byrne

#body #business #combine #dramatic #drums

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#beads #board #came #directed #dozen

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord. ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#earth #hath #noise #string #sweetest

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#feelings #great #had #i #lot

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there. ↗

— Brian Eno

#back #bar #broke #cause #chords

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. ↗

— Rex Stout

#ball #ball game #ballplayers #detective #detective stories

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#lives #look #lot #made #moments

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#catching #example #figures #had #illustrate

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#chord #desk #did #four #frets