String Tension

Famous quotes containing the words string and/or tension:

    The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
    Jeffrey Tate (b. 1943)

    Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
    Joan Didion (b. 1935)