Tangled Quotes

152 quotes by 139 authors

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled. — H. L. Mencken
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. — Arthur Koestler
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
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
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
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
Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue. — Bob Dylan
Motivations are too tangled and complex. — Russell Banks
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. — Daniel Day-Lewis
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
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! — Walter Scott
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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