Tangled Quotes
152 quotes by 139 authors
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Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.
— H. L. Mencken
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In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.
— Arthur Koestler
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The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have…
— Remy de Gourmont
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The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the…
— Maureen Howard
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Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory…
— Paul Cezanne
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Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their…
— Clive James
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Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.
— Bob Dylan
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Motivations are too tangled and complex.
— Russell Banks
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How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood,…
— Samuel Woodworth
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Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange…
— Robert Musil
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There's a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I'm obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw. And…
— Christopher Bollen
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The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the…
— John Muir
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Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the…
— Shan Sa
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I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or…
— Matt Dillon
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I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility…
— Dan Quayle
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
— Walter Scott
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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
— Virginia Woolf
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