Tangled Quotes

152 quotes by 143 authors

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such… — Kate Chopin
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and… — Richard J. Foster
The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers… — William Allman
Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid… — James Joyce
I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get… — Stevie Nicks
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque… — Annie Dillard
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease… — Rudyard Kipling
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough. — Henry Adams
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and… — Luther Standing Bear
When you say '90210,' everyone knows what you're talking about. So why not make use of that? And they certainly have. I think the show… — Jason Priestley
The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotleâ€™s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The… — Marina Endicott
When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex. — Randall Munroe
Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that… — Marie Howe
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching… — Rose Macaulay
Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that… — Learned Hand
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed… — Rube Goldberg
More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of the history of… — Robert C. Tucker
In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later,… — Kate Morton
I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll… — Karen Allen
The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the… — John Carmack

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