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  • The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness. The origin of the universe is what I do for a living, working on string theory. But I am also fascinated by consciousness.

    Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.
  • The result was the same as tuning down the strings by a semitone and using a capo at the first fret. With less tension in the strings, the sound was more mellow and softer; it also allowed me to cover a larger span of the fingerboard. I used this for quite a few years, but eventually I went back to the standard fingerboard.

    Music   Years   Sound  
  • I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

    Guitar   Guy   Age  
  • He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together.

    Two   Together   Silent  
  • I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music.

    Play   People   Trying  
  • Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

    Form   Strings   Thread  
    Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”
  • It's weird. I guess I got so used to [g-strings] when I was really young that I just couldn't stand it anymore.

    Used   Strings   Young  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings.

    Dream   Games   Shoes  
  • A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

    George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”
  • The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

    Book   Ipads   Impact  
  • The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat tat drenches his hair and face seems to smother him, but nothing's going to stop Tom. He;s aiming for oblivion.

    Hair   Sweat   Mind  
  • First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.

  • If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it.

    Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.239, Penguin
  • The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

    Soul   Violin   Strings  
  • Girls in New York look like giraffes. Long neck, long legs, tiny tits and ass. Girls from L.A rock over sized shades. And chill all day cause they already paid. Girls in Miami...string bikinis and bump techno by Dj Tiesto. Girls from Detroit like electro And dance all night till they break they neck yo.

    Girl   New York   Night  
  • Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

    "Casuals of the Sea : The Voyage of a Soul" by William McFee, Book II: The City, Ch. VI, 1916.
  • I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

    Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com
  • Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?

    David Steindl-rast (2010). “Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed”, p.137, Image
  • Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.

    Art   Thinking   Guitar  
  • When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.

  • One thing that definitely did calculate properly for me was the mathematics that makes sense every day, no matter how I look at it, I can't get around it. I try to get around it, I keep trying to find one plus one is not two, somehow. I can't. People can talk about string theory, parallel realities, different dimensions, it's still one plus one is two, baby.

    RZA
    Baby   Reality   Two  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

    Eggs   Luck   Would Be  
    George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16
  • Death cut the strings that gave me life, And handed me to Sorrow, The only kind of middle wife My folks could beg or borrow.

    Cutting   Wife   Sorrow  
    Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America
  • I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph.

    "Jay Gould: A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, in The Review of Reviews. Testimony to the New York Senate Committee on Labor and Education, February 1893.
  • It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

    Devil   Strings  
    Charles Baudelaire (1961). “Baudelaire: Introduced and edited by Francis Scarfe, with plain prose translations of each poem”
  • The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

  • Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

  • I've always loved Ibanez guitars, and in particular 7 strings.

    Source: puregrainaudio.com
  • So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

    Men   Two   Titles  
    Richard Hooker (1830). “The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker”, p.416
  • My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.

    Wall   Passion   Heart  
    Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”
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