Quotes About Strings

Marionettes dance afield beneath masterly hands— I stumble among them crossed by the strings in tangled two-step and curse all these fools in their mad pirouette— I shall not live as they do oh, no, leave me in my circled dance— these unbidden twitchings you see I swear on Hood's Grave is artistry in motion S

There is nothing wrong with being a puppet if love is the one pulling the strings.

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

Tinsley felt like a puppeteer playing with her marionettes, holding all the strings.

We are puppets, pulled by a wire by unknown forces; nothing, nothing ourselves!

The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars.

Hari Seldon called Trantor 'Star's End,' he whispered, 'and why not that bit of poetic imagery? All the universe was once guided from this rock; all the apron strings of the stars led here. 'All roads lead to Trantor,' says the old proverb, 'and that is where all stars end.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

My whammy system is set up so I can yank the bar up as well as do dive-bombs with it. This means that if I accidentally push down on the bridge with my palm, my strings go sharp and sound out of tune. I make sure this never happens by never resting my hand on the bridge when muting. I always do my muting just in front of the bridge.

The guitar is a funny instrument because you have bendable strings and distortion - there's a potential for noise. It is more exposing. Actually controlling the instrument, using proper vibrato, bending notes in tune, not fretting too hard, controlling the noise is a skill in itself that takes many years.

It is as though nature is a wonderful symphony that science sits in awe of. It looks closely at each player, how the tubas are tuned and how the strings are strung. Creationism lets out a loud 'shush' at such excitement. Just enjoy the show and stop asking questions.

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

Chromamatic' is actually about changing the strings on my guitar and tuning my guitar.

We are all puppets in the hands of Fate, and seldom see the strings that move us.

The guitar is the most beautiful of all instruments.

In short, money with strings is worth less than money without strings—sometimes a lot less.

Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!

Nothing was out there that this sister-girl did not provide in abundance: a racing heart, dreaminess, society, danger, beauty. She swallowed twice to prepare for the telling, to construct out of the strings she had heard all her life a net to hold beloved.

It was a biochemical Jackson Pollock: a field of strings, tangles, loops.

We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads.

setting all the beetles that were tied to it buzzing sleepily on the end of their strings like a flock of captive emeralds.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Her whole life, Crystal's mother had given her nothing but ultimatums. Conditional love. Love with strings.