I've got my veins all tangled close

You've got two veins; one carries blood directly to the body, one carries blood to the heart. That tumor was growing and was pressing…

— James Conner

Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The…

— Tom Waits

In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled…

— John Berger

Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and…

— Paul Cezanne

'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'

— William Blake

We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots…

— John Piper

“What this requires of us is that we don’t get tangled up in the living, even when we in fact feel woefully tangled up.…

— Cheryl Strayed

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.

— Ryan Holmes

I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me…

— Dorothy Hamill

“Build a tangled bank.”

— Steven Johnson

I always thought it would be a simple matter to lie wi' a woman, he said softly. And yet... I want to fall on…

— Diana Gabaldon

The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare,…

— Marina Endicott

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage…

— Maya Angelou

Your hair is a tangled mess,"he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane.

— Kim Harrison

Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us…

— Po Bronson