Tortuous Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous. — Anna Quindlen
By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into… — Strom Thurmond
On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for… — David Suzuki
I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free… — Fay Wray
From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to… — Dirk Benedict
The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines… — Daniel Libeskind
The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer… — Myrtle Reed
Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous. — Sheena Easton
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. — Hesiod
Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired… — Paul Brunton
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. — Stephen Gardiner
I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a… — Gerald R. Ford
You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have… — John Lydon
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. — Joanne Harris
Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone. — Daphne du Maurier
Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now… — Virginia Woolf
The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the… — Otto von Bismarck
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is… — Thomas Paine
Its plot is loose and tortuous and will take some time for its stars to emerge. — Alan Hamilton

Who Wrote These Tortuous Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Tortuous Quotes as follows: