Tangle Quotes
72 quotes by 64 authors
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As for the topsy-turvy tangle known as soixante-neuf, personally I have always felt it to be madly confusing, like trying to pat your head and…
— Helen Lawrenson
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The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.
— Arthur Lismer
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You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always…
— Ingrid Law
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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient…
— Emmet Fox
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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
— James A. Michener
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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately,…
— Brady Udall
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No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in…
— Terry Pratchett
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One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it.…
— Charles Frazier
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Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle
— Paul Celan
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It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good…
— Augusten Burroughs
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He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste…
— Jon Krakauer
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This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within…
— Primo Levi
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Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
— Primo Levi
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Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs…
— A. S. Byatt
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My father used to say that it’s not enough to just beat an attacker off. You have to hurt them enough that they’ll know not…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice…
— Jean Genet
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Look at this tangle of thorns.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it…
— Elizabeth Goudge
Who Wrote These Tangle Quotes
64 authors contributed a total of 72 Tangle Quotes, led by these top contributors: