Quotes about String

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Joseph Hall

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

Otis Williams

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Jeff Wolfe

There will be instruments and a lot of different kinds of performance. There will be flute and traditional Chinese string instruments. There will be violins and an American band that will play Chinese music.

Guo Yan

But bacon's not the only thing / That's cured by hanging from a string.

Hugh Kingsmill

I'm very happy, this is a good start for me. I managed to produce a string of birdies and am definitely very satisfied. It's my best round this year.

Thaworn Wiratchant

They are decent teams, but, obviously, we didn't hit very well, and when we did, we didn't string our hits together.

Colleen Perry

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

Paul Goldberger

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

Les Paul

It's organized crime. You say [just] a bunch of pimps and prostitutes, but when you string the threads of the rope together, what we end up with in many of these cases is organized crime.

Chip Burrus

There's an immediacy and a starkness that's there. I think a lot of Leadbelly's arrangements and his use of the 12-string guitar were atypical, especially the 12-string, which showed his individuality. I guess he approached it that way because the 12-string was louder. Leadbelly and the punk rock aesthetic - maybe there are some similarities there.

Jay Farrar

Hopefully I can continue that little string I had going.

Dwight Freeney

We've been playing well at home. Everybody's feeling maybe we can string some games together here.

Brian Willsie

We told them they had to be aggressive at the plate and play to win and not just play not to lose. The first couple of innings we put the bat on the ball which gave me hope that eventually something would happen and we would string some together and be able to get some runs across the plate.

Jan Davis

Hey, it can happen. Who's to say that if we string a group of 10, 11, 12 wins in a row we can't make up this ground? This is what you want.

Mike Redmond

The SEC has prepared exam modules for its staff. But it will take a while for the SEC to understand the complexities of hedge funds. Those examiners who have worked on hedge funds in the past will be the first string of examiners.

Janaya Moscony

CBS' morning efforts, ... represent the longest legacy of failure that exists in this business, and you just want to see whether you can break the string, whether you can start from scratch and take it out of last. I'll give it what I've got and hope that's enough.

Bryant Gumbel

I've just bought myself a G-string - which is rather fun.

Laurence Llewelyn bowen

For this one, the real critical test was making a string strong enough. We made a cable that was stationed by the balloons at a mile high for 6 hours?it was rock solid.

Michael Laine

It's an opportunity for me to go out and play and do some good things. You just never know what kind of opportunity is going to arise. I didn't have any idea two weeks ago, being the third-string quarterback, that I'd be starting today.

Ken Dorsey

This is simply one more in a string of defeats for the radical homosexual agenda in the greater Charlotte area. The Church of Jesus Christ has come out of the closet and, and because it has, the homosexual community is steadily moving back into it.

Rev. Flip Benham

It's been overwhelming with everyone scrambling for last minute stuff, ... A lot of them are coming in with a broken bow string. We don't like the last-minute stuff. It's stressful, but for a lot of these guys this is the only time they can do something. They need arrows re-fletched, broken strings fixed.

Jim Morrow

The goalie played outstanding. That's the third-string goalie, and he picked it up.

Tim Camacho

I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys named Lou who collect and wear string cheese.

Pat Sajak

The governor certainly hasn't spoken with Republicans about his plans. I think it would be embarrassing for him if we were to have a special session and nothing were to result from it. It would be just one more failure in a long string of failures.

David Bowles

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

Barry Cornwall

It's a culture of entitlement. This happens to be a bunch of white, upper-class boys who have the world on a string.

Kathy Redmond

I used to go to these classical music shows at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, and see all these string players. I don't understand why they don't continue to do that for kids, teach them music appreciation.

Brian Holland

The lakes are like a set of beads on a string, where the lakes are the beads connected by a string, or river of water.

Duncan Wingham

It's hard to imagine, unless there's a devil in the details, how anybody can give somebody $290 million without any strings attached. There's a string, so we have to dig it up. It could be a lot of conditions or contingencies.

Don Barden

You'd be hard-pressed to find a school that did not provide a full string, wind, choir program for everybody.

Christina Merblum

They all are blessed with physical abilities, but I think their strength in large part lies in their intellect. They work together like they're on a string.

Jim Tressel

We didn't really string anything together and put pressure on him. He got real comfortable, settled in.

Marlon Byrd

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!

Arnold Schoenberg

Finishing strong this weekend in the last game, we really put things together and looked like a team firing on all six cylinders. When we string it all together, we can get production at every position.

Kelly Witte

I think he pretty well had run the string out.

Tom Osborne

We would let the other team dictate the flow of the game. If they wanted to continue to run, we would get out and keep scoring. You don't want to bring in your second string and tell them not to play hard and compete.

Grant Weaver

It's hard to come up with positives in the market. It's another leg in the string of factors that point to a long stream of losses in bonds.

David Ging

Microsoft led a string of disappointing releases that tarnish what had so far been a very good earnings season. This will weigh on the market today.

Francisco Salvador

We could never string a rally together. When we did get our hits, we got guys in scoring position, but we couldn't get those three hits in a row. And we don't have the home run hitters to get us three-run home runs. That's what we are struggling with now.

Ralph Carlson

We view ourselves as folk artists first and foremost. The reason I play a one-string bass is to reference the old one-string washboard players ? the way we?re playing and our aesthetic is the same as theirs. It?s just the way we feel.

John Olson

We would string together two or three baskets and look like we were going to tie it up, but then they would force a turnover or get and easy basket and keep us at bay. They always seemed to have an answer.

Mark Winter

Let's string him up now!

Mario Vitali

BT's current resilience should bring a little relief to a sector that has been reeling from a string of negative announcements.

Morten Singleton

There are real problems with those pieces. I mean everything that Brahms writes seems to be 'bigger' than the medium he's writing for. The string quartets may be the most problematic of all his chamber music.

Lawrence Dutton

If you look at her size, she is 72 pounds. She is actually bigger than some of the males in the race. She has a fantastic disposition. She is really so laid-back that you could probably walk her up here with a string. She is all about racing.

Mick D'arcy

We'll start clicking. We'll string something together. Once we do that, we'll be fine. Baseball is a funny game. Sometimes it goes your way, sometimes it doesn't.

Noah Krol

I've had a string of second places lately, and I was just thinking I don't want a second place again. (Open Water) Worlds really helped more than anything. I was really confident coming into this meet.

Chip Peterson

This album is the same balance we've always had with melodic, riff-based rock songs, but we brought in the programming aspect on this one. We worked with a string quartet on two different songs. We always approach each song individually, try to make the most of each song and bring it to life as much as possible.

Dean Roland

The handful that did get hits [off Engel], a single here and a single there is going to do great things for a single person, but unless you can string them together, it doesn't matter in the big picture. We shut them down defensively.

April Stary

This group hasn't been fazed by the Federal Reserve's string of interest rate hikes.

Scott Berry

We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.

Terry Tempest Williams

We couldn't let Brown get north-south with no one touching him, we needed to string him out a little. But that Strom kid is a tough competitor. I'm glad I don't have to see him again, but I hope he does some damage to some other teams.

Tom Farrell

The things that they do I never would have dreamt of - it's quite exciting to see that. It's almost like a string of crackers - you light the first one but what happens after that is anyone's guess.

Anne Salmond

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

Andre Segovia

So I said, 'Well, I'll try it,' and we proceeded to string four (wins) in a row together, and it becomes one of those deals where you don't ever go back.

Vic Koenning

The farmers crush the chilies they grow and mix them with old engine oil. They smear that paste onto a simple string fence around their field, protecting their other crops.

Nina Gibson

We played good basketball for maybe 10 minutes and struggled for the other 30. We've had a string of games where we've won by a significant number of points, and we've developed some bad habits.

Jason Hoseney

It was a good day for me. It is my best round so far this year. Every time I get into a competition, I am confident, but its not every time that I am able to do well. So I am happy with my score. I managed to produce a string of birdies and I am definitely very satisfied.

Thaworn Wiratchant

I grew up in the Midlands area of England around the Birmingham area and when I was four years old, my uncle, who was living in the same house that I was living in, had as a hobby, playing the ukulele. At four years old, I was interested in this instrument already and he taught me a few chords on it. So that is how I started on string instruments.

Dave Holland

Things are starting to look up a bit. We just have to string together a couple of wins.

Dave Lamarre

Right now, he's probably our second-string quarterback. He's a lot like Mitchell. He has great leadership skills.

Robert Massey

You see some teams that are demoralized by injuries. We're one team ... that's confident we won't miss a beat whether it's the first-string guy or the second-string guy.

Chris Simms

Things were at a fairly low ebb. Everybody knew me but I wasn't getting much work. So Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews asked me to string together a series of expletives, which I did in the style of this other character, and they just sort of looked at each other.

Frank Kelly

Baseball is a game of streaks and today they did not go our way. Now, we have to try to go out and get a win tomorrow and try to string a few wins together.

Jeff Schexnaider

Our focus is not doing a string of one-off hits like the TV model.

Joanna Stevens

It's still a good thing. We've got to get our act together at home, and it's an opportunity to string some wins together. That's the only way we can look at it. We've got to be excited by that possibility.

Boyd Devereaux

It is music developing on its own terms. It's the 'music now' concept - what are musicians doing now as opposed to a string quartet playing Brahms. It's music that's delicate and justifies presentation in a special format. That's why we wanted a creative space to justify it.

Bryce Dessner

At this point, I'm just trying to see how it reacts after the ice. I have to make sure it doesn't flare up. I'm trying to string two days together to get some conditioning in.

Matt Cooke

I think Parsons will represent the smaller schools very well, though. Our string orchestra has a good reputation.

Judy Jones

In 20 minutes, the airline would be dead, ... This is an airline that's hanging by a string. It's incumbent on both sides to keep the airline flying. Even going forward, it's got challenges.

Michael Boyd

There isn't anything we are striving to attain, but we want to be able to play a string of two-night stands instead of our staple one-night stands.

Ethan Iverson

She's taking throat singing to a new realm. It's a great chance to see a world class group - they're the leading non-classical string quartet in the world.

Eric Epstein

We read some pretty moving s that string lines from torture to sexual and physical abuse. It resonates with you and you want to make a difference. It's hard; we live such privileged lives, (it's) hard to sit there and do nothing once you become aware.

Eddie Drake