#string

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#choose #down #exact #full #genius

When you have strings, everybody pulls you here and pulls you there. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#here #pulls #strings #you

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#bad thing #cable #coverage #disasters #endless

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

— Larry Elder

#benefit #better #connected #disproportionately #elite

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

— H. G. Bohn

#friends #like #must #screwed #strings

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#always #got #guitar #i #i always

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

— Jeff Bridges

#go #holds #kite #me #she

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#back #both #different #different sets #formal

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#anybody #anything #continue #down #for the people

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners. ↗

— John Fogerty

#along #also #because #bend #cheating