#strings

I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#arachne #heroes-of-olympus #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #pulling-strings #spiders

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings. ↗

— Kenny Hickey

#come #handle #i #i can #man

I do seem to 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

All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it. ↗

— Guy Clark

#enjoy #first #form #guitar #gut

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create. ↗

— David Copperfield

#camera #create #fly #i #seven

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#hang #human #human things #slender #strings

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#control #even #had #himself #his

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#had #heart #human #human heart #strings

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#endowed #feeling #frequently #instruments #many

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings. ↗

— Rita Dove

#cheerful #comes #curious #double #i