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I've always thought Geoff was a hard worker, someone who makes it difficult for defenders because of his physical presence. But he has got other strings to his bow. His actual link-up play is very good. He sees midfield runners coming up to join him and he has got a nice touch on the ball where he brings people into the game.

The missionaries are losing out to the merchants. While the bigger media groups are not allowed to run independent print media or television channels, the Internet companies are already here. You can participate in China, but there are strings attached.

They still have some strings on you. You can't get hurt. Some guys have gotten hurt before they signed the big contract. I'm out here making sure, very gingerly, that I don't get hurt.

There's nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It's like when you go to the cinema - the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so big. The scale. Directors can pretty much do anything for those first few minutes.

To be able to adjust the strings has always been the most difficult thing to do.

I've always felt that it's necessary for me to add to the sound, as on the Capitol albums with strings or brass, rather than to change it entirely.

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

I know when I am being harassed. It seems to me that Japan is pulling some strings around here.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Do not come to decisions watching the strings someone talking in public...There may be millions of reasons hidden under those comments and statements... :)

Consumers have tightened the purse strings and this could continue over the next few months approaching Christmas.

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.

It's outstanding. We really pulled some strings to get it done.

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.

The feeling I had was that he had gotten cold feet. The tenor of all the changes was to write out all of the strings attached... It was like, 'give me $150,000, no strings attached.' But that money is coming from the state.

The kites and all the strings were imported from India just for this celebration. The string is specially made for this.

The laboratory was established with a gift from Reynolds with no strings attached,

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

George Bush is a son of privilege -- a fortunate son who has spent his entire life receiving special favors and having strings pulled for him, ... He's gone from being a fortunate son who uses special influence to being an unfortunate president who makes especially wrong choices for America.

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

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.

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.

The key was our aggressive serving. Jessica and Kelsey got strings of serves going that didn't allow them to get into their offense and generated some momentum for us.

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.

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

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

Forever it seems like we've been waiting for the purse strings to open. They're not opening that wide, but they're moving in the right direction.

It is time to get all this behind us, to get this behind the American people. The president will put his personal feelings aside about the case and resolve it, if we can do it with honor. But we cannot do it with honor at $2 million and a package deal with strings attached.

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.

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.

We are two months on from the IRA statement and 64 months on from the deadline for completing (weapons) decommissioning in the agreement. The scrapping of IRA weapons is long overdue. It needs to happen now without further delay. The longer the IRA strings this out, the more it damages the Good Friday agreement.

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

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.

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.

If I wanted to have wooden sex with strings attached I'd get married."" In reference to the movie ""Team America"" in which puppets appear to have sex

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole

I've cried over string arrangements.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

America's workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.

I've Got the World on a String,

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.

Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy -- comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

One's whole being vibrates like strings brushed by an invisible wind.

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.

Different hearts beat on different strings

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider!

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

I've plenty of bows to my string.

I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.

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

Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.