For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
Quotes about stringing (16 Quotes)
They just had that one inning. That was a high school baseball inning. They got walks and errors and one hit. You don't see a lot of teams stringing six and seven hits together to score runs.
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Today was a surprise. We are not that kind of ball club at all. Usually we hit the ball hard on the ground and create runs by stringing hits together.
I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.
(MacKenzie) has been stringing great practices together. He had a great game last Thursday and then (Saturday) he got started a little slowly, but then he got into his groove and started to shoot better.
Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
This system is (tailored) to him. He's getting us into positions where he's stringing the defense out. He's always one step ahead of the defense.
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
Are the phone companies going to be able to last just by stringing a line into the home I'm not so sure. It's in everyone's best interest for the phone companies to stay in business, so we're going to have to discuss this issue and come up with a solution.
The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
I know our kids are hurting after this one. We have to rebound. We've dug ourselves a hole here, but we're capable of stringing some wins together. We have some good ball players. We're capable of doing it.
This is huge. It's about stringing wins together right now. You can't worry about what positions are and things like that. We're just trying to win basketball games.