#string

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

— Georg Buchner

#forces #only #our #pulled #puppets

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

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

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#finally #foot #hand #iron #piece

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty. ↗

— Edward Witten

#basic #basic things #beauty #different #different shapes

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

#been #excited #fugitive #gladly #happiness

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it! ↗

— Arnold Schoenberg

#cannot #deny #directly #i #i am

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#completely #portrait #process #progression #random

I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making. I mean, they're extremely apparent to me. ↗

— Danny Strong

#apparent #behind #campaign #extremely #i

Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us. ↗

— George Takei

#before #box #box office #did #feature