Quotes About Getting Tangled

#1. I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tangled up in everybody else's?

Charles De Lint

#2. Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.

Laurie Beth Jones

#3. If only it weren't for the people, the goddamned people," said Finnerty, "always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren't for them, earth would be an engineer's paradise.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. If it weren't for the people, the god-damn people' said Finnerty, 'always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren't for them, the world would be an engineer's paradise.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. You can be okay here, Tash. If you're getting tangled up in history, then you need to turn around, babe. You're looking backwards." He bent down, bringing his mouth to hers, leaving nothing but a few molecules between them. "Turn around, babe. See me.

Susan Fanetti

#6. 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.

Mal Peet

#7. 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.

Andrew O'Hagan

#8. Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.

Bob Dylan

#9. Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#10. I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

V.E Schwab

#11. If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it.

Jay Asher

#12. Jan shook his head, 'No. You have the most beautiful, powerful voice that any of us are ever hearing,' he said. 'How could we leave you alone? It would be against the law. I would have to telephone Interpol.

Lucy Robinson

#13. They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

Daryl Hannah

#14. Spending some time getting quiet can really be the best remedy for tangled situations. Taking a step back from all the emotion, frustration, and exhaustion to sit quietly with Jesus will do more to untangle a mess than anything else I've ever found.

Lysa TerKeurst

#15. Only a rose would make a man turn the shade of his desire.

Erin Eveland

#16. A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.

Helen Rowland

#17. Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician ... and we were all born to be magicians.

Dianna Hardy

#18. That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober
this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

Al Jolson

#20. Damn, she was getting so tangled up by guilt and desire. ~Nikki in Texas Tangle

Leah Braemel

#21. Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

Jennifer Egan