#fret

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself. ↗

— George Crabbe

#cannot #die #dry #fish #fling

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#frets #gibson #go #i #necks

About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting. ↗

— Terry Kath

#fat #fingers #fretting #i #neck

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#fret #i #i can #lost #novel

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#denying #fretting #lot #upbringing

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it. ↗

— Michael Medved

#consumes #fretting #industry #little #much

You know how your eyes can deceive you at times--how a group of shapes and shadows can take on a certain form and then shift into another? It wasn't really like that; there was no physical change in him, he was exactly the same as he'd always been. I knew every line of his long body and every curl on his disheveled black head. I'd just never seen him before. you know what I'm trying to say, don't you? The change is in the heart. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#ramses #change

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#easily #frets #gravitation #his #into

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#because #bending #breakthrough #couple #every

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

#consume #fretting #our #tomorrows #yesterdays