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

Aldous Huxley

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Pythagoras

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.

Tom Robbins

If someone approaches you on the street or on the subway, and flatters you by saying, 'You've got the look that we are looking for,' hold on to your purse strings. You may be on your way to being a victim, not playing a role or posing for pictures.

Jodie Bernstein

The biggest thing is what kind of strings are going to be attached to it. If it will be free money and they will let us spend it the way we want to, that will be great.

Pete Gindl

Everybody in Nashville wants to play guitar. I didn't have a bass, so I took two strings off of a guitar and played it like a bass. [Learning the bass] came easily for me, it didn't take a lot of effort.

Nick Rather

In a dictatorship where Gadhafi controls the strings, he can make sure that the things he wants to give priority to are given money. There are no constraints on his ability to assist movements that he considers useful.

Paul Wilkinson

These four companies all had good solid strings of success for a while. They even had Wall Street paralyzed by their success.

Craig Johnson

There are still some fundamental concerns over Prop. 98. What strings are attached to this money? Some are tied in grants.

Bill Loose

Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.

Marya Mannes

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

My grandpa and I talked, and I said I'd take any money that was legal and with no strings attached. If people didn't feel confident in me, they wouldn't just sign a check over to me and be linked to me.

Pat Grassley

I still don't know what strings are attached to this. I'm delighted, of course.

Jim Rich

When the IMF lends you money it has all these strings attached. But if you don't owe the IMF money, the IMF can't poke its nose into your affairs even though IMF money is cheaper than the money that's available on the open market.

Felipe Noguera

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Yusuf Islam

The addition of strings and keyboard percussion was yet another layer added there that seemed to really enhance the drama of the speech.

Colin Tribby

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

Vanna Bonta

I've written more songs than ever before on this record. (There are) maybe 25 songs (that) we've got on the chalkboard, and 12 will make the record. It's funk, rock, soul, and pop all mixed together in a big soup. I'm probably going to have some real strings and maybe some more orchestrated songs. This one, and I'll quote Chad here, is going to be the most varied record I've ever done.

Glenn Hughes

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

Thanks to some diligent music historians, we now understand that when you go back to the instruments of the day and discover how the tempos would be, how the balance would be, it changes your perception. You go for a more technical approach to the strings, use less pressure with the bow and more speed.

George Hanson

It's a groundbreaking song. There were never tracks like that in hip-hop, I should say, history before. It's all about me. It's so, like, strings and it's so freaking gangsta at the same time. It's how I wanted to come out.

Miri Ben ari

I hoping that he strings together multiple games like that. He's capable of it. We know when he's on, he's unbelievable.

Troy Dayak

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

H. G. Bohn

In a perfect world would I want them recruiting (on campus)? No. But those are some of the strings that come with federal money.

Judy Conte

She has pink shoe strings, but she's one of the guys for the most part. People want to come watch her wrestle, and she goes after it.

Glenn Hartman

[Friends of the Earth International is also critical of the high corporate profile at the summit.] Big business has got hold of the puppet strings behind the scenes, ... I think it's quite obvious whose PR is treated as most summit-friendly.

Tony Juniper

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

What's so great about this program is it puts cash into the farmer's pocket, cash with no strings attached.

Susie Spindler

They have a big attraction -- there are no strings attached, and if doesn't work out, you go pick out another office 'spouse,' and no divorce is necessary.

Mark Oldman

It's larger than a mandolin, but smaller than a guitar. It's a 20-fretted instrument with 10 strings. The design and construction are totally unique.

Paul Carter

Some so-called 'jazz purists' are critical of me using strings instead of just a trio, and I say to that, 'HA! Who cares?'

Diana Krall

There's nothing the Board of Finance does that the Town Council can't also do. Too many times they've set policy for the town with the purse strings.

Lou White

The Hudson's agenda cannot have any more strings attached. The future should be based on the standard philosophy that biological integrity is the limiting factor.

John Cronin

I'm not an insider, and I don't really have an agenda. I don't have anyone pulling my strings. I would want people to call me and let me know what they'd like to see happen in Spring- field.

Aj Ullmann

There were two sides to this, and they were all trying to pull the strings they had politically. I think what happened here is that it moved . . . past all of that stuff to a true public issue. There were a lot of people who got very active against this.

Craig Cohoon

Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.

Lars Von Trier

I'd like to see a cutting of the strings, you might say.

Charles Wynn

There's a real organic quality to it. It comes right down to the fundamentals of wood and steel. A lot of acoustic guitars, mandolins, banjos, fiddles and steel strings. You're not going to see a lot of drums. You're not going to see huge PA systems.

Jeff Black

Obviously, you're going to miss the school play. My daughter scored her first goal in soccer, which you know, if you miss that, it pulls at your heart strings. The upside is we have an extraordinary life.

Richie Sambora

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

Howard Thurman

Duo (near the Highland neighborhood) had their best Saturday night ever. Capital Grille and Strings were sold out. The Fort had over 400 reservations. It was crazy.

Rich Grant

There is no infrastructure in the country, roads, electricity, lack of clean sanitary conditions, lack of clean water to drink. It just pulled at my heart strings to be honest with you.

Chris Stone

The man in black turns sunshine yellow in 'Ring of Fire,' the show that strings songs associated with Johnny Cash into an artificially sweetened candy necklace.

Ben Brantley

Early on in his career that (getting forward) was his (Keane's) forte. He's just shown he's got more strings to his bow than just sitting in there. I say, 'go on, on you go'. He was full of energy, as was the whole team.

Neil Lennon

We love doing the car wash. It's a lot of fun and a great way to reach out to the local community and serve with absolutely no strings attached.

Bill Martin

Most are middle-class women who are very successful, in areas like banking, the media, the law or running their own businesses - they tend to earn anything from £50,000 up to the millions. They are aged from late 20s to early 50s, and they are looking for a fun night out with no strings attached, because they simply do not have the time for a social life.

Louise Brown

Government is the 800-pound gorilla in the room — the problem with getting in bed with it, it sometimes rolls over on you. Federal money always comes with strings.

Mike Tanner

It's fun to use a capo 'cause you can get the strings to really have a bell-like sound. It's a thing I got into when I was writing songs. When I started to really write a lot, I would use the capo to try different keys and different combinations.

Carl Wilson

He got some film on me and got it to coach (Ron) Zook and the coaching staff, and they pulled a couple of strings for me.

Darryon Robinson

Jini is different from the PC because there's no central control, no monopolist pulling the strings.

Bill Joy

We don't know that there are strings.

Mark Dobson

I'm hoping that this memorial will pull at some heart strings and at some consciences.

Spencer Mann

It was terse and highly effective, written for people without much time by a person who controls the purse strings for the Republican Party.

John Walke

The instrumentation was a little different. A little more experimental this time. We had saxophone and trumpet and strings and piano. The other two (albums) I've done are more straight-up singer/songwriter. The others were real story songs and these were more poetic-slash-story songs.

Adam Carroll

They are going to pull out all the strings to try and stop the run.

Stephen Parker

In this work, I wanted him (the bass clarinet soloist) to sort of cajole the strings into going along with him. He would sort of kindly and smilingly get them to see his way.

Fred Cohen

There are no strings attached to that for us.

Kate O'connor

Each cable is about 3-feet in diameter, and within the cables are thin strings of wire that actually make up the cable themselves.

Ernesto Butcher

G-strings are uncomfortable. Girls want real knickers now.

Elle Macpherson

The electric guitar is not my instrument. Really, the nylon strings is where I have my voice. It's like asking the piano player why he doesn't play the organ.

Earl Klugh