#string

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#finance #follow #heroes #like #off

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

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#love #lover #make #poet #power

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