It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces.

- Edward Witten

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

- Robyn Davidson

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

- Pele

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

- Marsha Norman

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

- Leonard Slatkin

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

- Jules Shear

I've cried over string arrangements.

- Janelle Monae

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

- Hugh Kingsmill

When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't life, any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is, but we know that it sometimes leads to life.

- George Dyson

I can fish from a stick and a string.

- Giancarlo Esposito

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

- Anne Lamott

You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles.

- Edward Witten

I think, if I had a big flop, that probably it would have ended the string at Disney, but it didn't! Every film was a success.

- Dean Jones

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.

- Duncan Sheik

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.

- David Ignatius

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

- Chuck Mangione

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

- Ben Marcus

String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it.

- Brian Greene

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

- Bjork