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Tangled Quotes

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 probably go on doing it for the rest of my life Picture Quote #1

When life gets tangled there’s something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous Picture Quote #1

In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas’s dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck Picture Quote #1

Gather up your telegrams Your faded pictures, best laid plans Books and postcards, 45’s Every sunset in the sky Carry with you maps and string, flashlights Friends who make you sing And stars to help you find your place Music, hope and amazing grace Maybe what we leave Is nothing but a tangled little mystery Maybe what we take Is nothing that has ever had a name Picture Quote #1

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes Picture Quote #1

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire Picture Quote #1

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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn’t a good idea Picture Quote #1

[...] the beginning of things, of a world especially is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing Picture Quote #1

Both of my books, ‘Love Is a Mix Tape’ and ‘Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,’ are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I’m an obsessive music fan, I’m always seeking out new sonic thrills Picture Quote #1

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 that I don’t have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much Picture Quote #1

I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn’t let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she’s right: short hair did suit me Picture Quote #1

When life gets tangled there’s something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous Picture Quote #1

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Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower Picture Quote #1

A woman’s hair net tangled in a man’s spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser Picture Quote #1

Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of one who sees the end from the beginning; he shall yet unravel all Picture Quote #1

The tatters of old stories are tangled, weathered, muted by long held silences that succeeded loud feuds, and sometimes no doubt re-dyed a more flattering color Picture Quote #1

But should you lure from his dark haunt, beneath the tangled roots of pendent trees, the monarch of the brook, behoves you then to ply your finest art Picture Quote #1

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn’t a good idea Picture Quote #1

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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind Picture Quote #1

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 to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble Picture Quote #1

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 that I don’t have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much Picture Quote #1

The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush Picture Quote #1

Tangled in one another’s arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them Picture Quote #1

We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions Picture Quote #1

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The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans Picture Quote #1

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank Picture Quote #1

It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled Picture Quote #1

Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled / among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life Picture Quote #1

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together Picture Quote #1

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I’m paying for it Picture Quote #1

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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 probably go on doing it for the rest of my life (Tangled Quotes) When life gets tangled there’s something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous (Tangled Quotes) In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas’s dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck. (Tangled Quotes) Gather up your telegrams Your faded pictures, best laid plans Books and postcards, 45’s Every sunset in the sky Carry with you maps and string, flashlights Friends who make you sing And stars to help you find your place Music, hope and amazing grace Maybe what we leave Is nothing but a tangled little mystery Maybe what we take Is nothing that has ever had a name (Tangled Quotes) While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes. (Tangled Quotes) When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire. (Tangled Quotes) I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn’t a good idea. (Tangled Quotes) [...] the beginning of things, of a world especially is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. (Tangled Quotes) Both of my books, ‘Love Is a Mix Tape’ and ‘Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,’ are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I’m an obsessive music fan, I’m always seeking out new sonic thrills. (Tangled Quotes) 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 that I don’t have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much. (Tangled Quotes) I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn’t let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she’s right: short hair did suit me. (Tangled Quotes) When life gets tangled there’s something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous. (Tangled Quotes) Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower. (Tangled Quotes) A woman’s hair net tangled in a man’s spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser (Tangled Quotes) Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of one who sees the end from the beginning; he shall yet unravel all (Tangled Quotes) The tatters of old stories are tangled, weathered, muted by long held silences that succeeded loud feuds, and sometimes no doubt re-dyed a more flattering color (Tangled Quotes) But should you lure from his dark haunt, beneath the tangled roots of pendent trees, the monarch of the brook, behoves you then to ply your finest art (Tangled Quotes) I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn’t a good idea (Tangled Quotes) The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind (Tangled Quotes) 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 to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble (Tangled Quotes) 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 that I don’t have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much (Tangled Quotes) The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush (Tangled Quotes) Tangled in one another’s arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them (Tangled Quotes) We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions (Tangled Quotes) The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans (Tangled Quotes) The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank (Tangled Quotes) It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled (Tangled Quotes) Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled / among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life (Tangled Quotes) Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together (Tangled Quotes) My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I’m paying for it (Tangled Quotes)

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