Twelve String Quotes & Sayings

Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting. — Elijah Fenton

Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows. — John Seely Brown

It's mind-boggling to consider that movies this bad are actually committed to film. The poor quality of The Pest in almost every category humor, intelligence, creativity, and just plain entertainment value ranks it somewhere between a bad infomercial and a local cable newscast. Rarely do I consider the act of seeing a movie to be a chore, but this kind of experience is the exception - Directed By Paul Miller. — James Berardinelli

One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces. — Squarepusher

Garcia had traded his Sears electric guitar for an acoustic model shortly after arriving in Palo Alto, and late that spring Barbara bought him a better guitar, and shortly after that, a lovely sounding Stella twelve-string. — Blair Jackson

What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts?
(after 0-0 draw at Anfield) — Bill Shankly

The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose. Occasionally some students do arrive for an education but rote and mechanical nature of the institution soon converts them to a less idealic attitude — Robert M. Pirsig

My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing. — Roger McGuinn

Old habits for old people; reinvent yourself while you still can! — T.F. Hodge

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie. — Katha Pollitt

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure. — Parker Palmer

What's right is relative, isn't it? — Marie Lu

The stewardship of influence. What have you done with influence? — Johnny Hunt

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them. — Margaret Mitchell

You, sir, are as twisted as a twelve-string banjo. - Willie Nelson to Sheriff Preston Bank — Ray Palla

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status. — Ethan Suplee