#string

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

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#different #different color #every #guitar #orchestra

The bottom string is tuned to an open G. ↗

— Jules Shear

#open #string #tuned

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#everyone #lived #observe #one time #say

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

That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#bunch #edit #find #get #great

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#go #nowhere #pull #push #string

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. ↗

— Pele

#everything #guitar #like #must #string

Uncomplicated, no strings sex makes you happy, love makes you miserable. ↗

— Spencer Waking the dead

#bbc-drama-series-waking-the-dead #love #love

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life. ↗