#string

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

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. ↗

— David Guterson

#author #away #beyond #change #figure

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#before #doing #done #ever #guitar

I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#break #guitars #i #instead #just

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#bows #high #high school #i #loved

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

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

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