Strings Quotes

Afterward we asked Andy -- who's normally pretty stiff for a kid -- to check the range of motion in his hamstrings by raising his knee to his chest. Well, Andy almost knocked himself out when his kneecap hit his chin. He was that loose. - David Leadbetter

Adam: I'm warning you, if you take one step closer, I'm never letting you go. - No Strings Attached (Movie)

A woman drew her long black hair out tight / And fiddled whisper music on those strings / And bats with baby faces in the violet light / Whistled. - T.S. Eliot

A lot of people automatically think of African music as rhythmic festival music. A lot of it is, but some of the highest moments in our shows have been when we're barely touching our strings. In the same show, people will be dancing in the aisle, and then sitting quietly and you can hear a pin drop. - Walter Strauss

[The zoo offers the tactile experience of sliding a bow across the strings of a fiddle, plucking a stand-up bass, pounding a drum, strumming a guitar or blowing into a trumpet.] I think of it as a mini museum, ... We have some basic knowledge of all the instruments. My main instrument is the mountain dulcimer, but we'll have a banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitars, dulcimers and a washtub and stand-up bass. There will be a wind instrument area and lots of percussion instruments, including a limberjack. That's a board with a dancing man you bounce in time to the music. - Connie Allen

[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