#string

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

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#attempts #became #came #could #couple

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

#happen #how #i #i can #likely

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#arrange #arrangement #arrangements #as far as #basic

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#effective #execution #i #know #laws

I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish. ↗

— Sprague Grayden

#breakfast #cheese #chicken #corn #day

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#electronic #having #hence #i #images

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#arguing #because #generally #getting #hard