#string

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For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.


Charles Kuralt


#column #comes #copy #expression #habit

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.


Aldous Huxley


#gods #homemade #ours #power #pull

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

Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size.


Terry Kath


#along #days #down #find #half

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.


Lenny Kravitz


#bought #cut #engineer #i #kid

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.


Edward Witten


#before #century #describing #developed #elegant

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!


Alvin Lee


#because #clubs #cool #earth #great

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.


Lisa Loeb


#around #arts #balloons #birthday #bounce

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.


Yo-Yo Ma


#deep #grow #idea #issues #lots

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.


Elizabeth Moon


#bass #beautifully #cello #perfect #string