Famous quotes containing the words string quartet, soldier and/or string:
“The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.”
—Jeffrey Tate (b. 1943)
“I have no doubt that soldiers well drilled are, as a class, peculiarly destitute of originality and independence.... It is impossible to give the soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)