Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied… — Barney Frank 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
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Friends, you are lucky you can talk about what you did as lovers; the tricks, laughter, the words, the ecstasy. After my… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
My soul is an entangled knot, Upon a liquid vortex wrought By Intellect in the Unseen residing, And thine doth like a… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory… — Rajneesh 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
'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that… — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Will,” she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how… — Philippe Petit 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
The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my… — Laurie Halse Anderson 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
If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was… — Arthur Golden 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
I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
When we found out Blackburn's owners wanted us to do a chicken advert for Venky's, we didn't really know what to think.… — Michel Salgado Copy Share Image
One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage - it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much… — Noureen DeWulf Copy Share Image
