It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing.… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The great thing about having a serialized drama (like 'Sons of Anarchy') is that I'm allowed to bring up events and circumstances… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott,… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice… — Nicholas Brendon Copy Share Image
The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats.… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up… — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith! — Donna Mills Copy Share Image
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image