Quotes About Knots

#1. As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done.

Josh Kaufman

#2. My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?'

James Callis

#3. which is one reason I kept them. The knots. I know all the knots.

Annie Winters

#4. In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.

Conn Iggulden

#5. ABNODATION (ABNODA'TION) n.s.[abnodatio, Lat.] The act of cutting away knots from trees;a term of gardening.Dict.

Samuel Johnson

#6. Memory is like a rope, knotted every three or four feet, and hanging down a deep well. When you pull it up, just about anything might be attached to those knots. But you'll never know what's there if you don't pull. And the more you pull at that rope, the more you find.

Dinty W. Moore

#7. It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, I'm the most excited I've ever been in my life. I'm totally enthralled by him. I want him, every part of him, and I desperately want him to feel the same way about me.

Serena Grey

#8. I realized then that both Gladys and Norm were smiling at about the time I realized that Max and I were acting like lunatics.
"I don't think she's tied up in knots anymore, Gladie," Norm observed.
"She is, dear, just not ones she wants to untie," Gladys remarked.

Kristen Ashley

#9. She got to her feet and tucked her fingers into her armpits to warm them, glaring at Briar and Parahan as she walked over to the mules. It wasn't fair that men didn't have to twist themselves into knots to pee!

Tamora Pierce

#10. A knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of all of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine, the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots, and the path of paradox lies along the blade of the knife--the only path worthy of the mind without fear. . . .

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#11. He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

William Gibson

#12. The parts of my new job that filled me with abject and irrational fear, that twisted me into all kinds of knots, were the raw emotions of those left alive. It was the living who were the great unknown.

Scot Gardner

#13. I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

Julia Child

#14. Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.

Barney Frank

#15. If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Simon Newcomb

#16. When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE!

Judith Orloff

#17. He could endure her punishments as long as he made progress in unraveling the knots that bound her soul.

Pepper Winters

#18. Waterbury, he answers immediately. My stomach knots up. I know it's stupid - I know the stakes are higher than the two of us - but I can't help but feel a flash of anger. Of course he disagrees with me. Of course.

Lauren Oliver

#19. History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

Orson Scott Card

#20. I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#21. All that time tying herself up in knots because she simply couldn't think of
a good reason not to be with him

Chris Manby

#22. A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.

Brian Austin Green

#23. Accumulated knots in the fabric of our body, previously undetected, begin to reveal themselves as we open.

Jack Kornfield

#24. I had never been interested in boys and had no notion that I ever would, seeing being in love and loving as a great tangle in which you could lose your head as well as your heart. Yet standing there that afternoon looking at the young man. I could well see how such knots in life were made.

Sally Gardner

#25. You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what ... I feel inside me ...

Katy Evans

#26. It is the firstborn's burden to unravel the knots that younger brothers make.

Wally Lamb

#27. To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.

Zadie Smith

#28. The tripartite structure - so you remember the third brother, second brother, first brother, or the first dervish, second dervish, and third dervish. This is very like embroidering a cloth, as you have to know where you are with the knots.

Marina Warner

#29. There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.

Marilynne Robinson

#30. I need a sound-proof room to tie up the inner critic, gag her and nail the door shut. But she keeps escapping. Poor knots and short nails.

Judy L Mohr

#31. I look down and see my hands uncapping the pen, turning the notepad right-side up on my knees. My mouth is dry, my stomach is in knots, my life is over, my heart is broken.

I start to write.

Amanda Maciel

#32. Who are you trying to impress? You're twisting yourself into knots trying to fit in with this crowd. It isn't worth it.

Stephanie Clifford

#33. To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.

Andrea Gibson

#34. The woman
has great power. Se can tie knots in your chest that only God's breathing loosens. Don't
take her appeal lightly.

Rumi

#35. You've got nothing to be scared of with me. Not one damn thing. You've had me in knots for months, Dee. Fighting for you, us, and this relationship might drive me mad at times, but it's a fight I want if it ends with you in my arms.

Harper Sloan

#36. As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?

Richard Dooling

#37. My husband and I don't worry about each other the way we might if we didn't have similar jobs. I sometimes get an email where he tells me he's heading off on a mission to do terrain avoidance 50 feet above the ground at 500 knots. And I just say, "Okay, have a good flight."

Julie Payette

#38. We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Jean Toomer

#39. Around the opposite sex, especially back then, my tongue twisted into knots even a Boy Scout would walk away from

Jay Asher

#40. There are no stars, no moon, only knots, only the promise of death. Drums cry out in the abyss and then fade with everything else. Even the shadows fade and all that is left is death. We are all dead, we just haven't figured it out yet.

Courtney M. Privett

#41. Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united ...

D.H. Lawrence

#42. My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

Jim Parsons

#43. The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Janet Fitch

#44. Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.

Margaret Atwood

#45. I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.

Philippe Petit

#46. I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#47. On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.

Ian McKellen

#48. When you move to a new environment with cultural and social characteristics different from your own, it is only logical, that you loosen some of the knots of your religious doctrines, to embrace the new and vivid environment as much as you wish to be embraced by the environment.

Abhijit Naskar

#49. Your insides tie themselves in knots, but your heart refuses to understand.

Vicki Myron

#50. I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so many knots it could make a boy scout envious.

Colleen Hoover

#51. He knew then he was in danger. Very real danger. No woman had ever given him a gift or spoken to him as she did. Or tied him in these breathless knots. Or left him so aroused just by standing close and letting him hold her hand.

Jayne Fresina

#52. Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

Alice Hoffman

#53. America, land of coupling, land of sanctioned marriage and two-person twined knots, land of tireless good-citizen living, land of the happy family, land of the free and the brave and the locked imagination, land of ignorant homeowner masses lined up in twos.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#54. Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

Fred Rogers

#55. When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

Bill Burr

#56. If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.

Uday Kotak

#57. Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

Edgar Friedenberg

#58. If you can't tie good knots, tie plenty of them

Gary Jobson

#59. Towering pines and hemlocks, was it? I thought, clambering over the burled knots of a fallen tree. The monstrous trunks rose so high that the lowest limbs started twenty feet above my head. Longfellow had no idea.

Diana Gabaldon

#60. The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots ...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

Hugh Howey

#62. Each creature had something it excelled at, he supposed. Humans could manage knots easily, and cats could do everything else.

Jim Butcher

#63. You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

Willie Stargell

#64. We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#65. Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

Josh Ritter

#66. We both try to fight the rope that binds us, but the knots are too tight.

Corinne Michaels

#67. Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

L.M. Montgomery

#68. Speech does not always unravel matters. Words can betray you, their labyrinthine threads tangled in knots, for we were cursed at that great tower of Babel, to speak always in riddles and never yet to comprehend.

Ned Hayes

#69. One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage - it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much less tense after I've gotten rid of some knots in my shoulders and back.

Noureen DeWulf

#70. I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.

Dallas Roberts

#71. Don't worry, though, I'm sure you're still both tighter than the knots on a tree.

Nick Pageant

#72. We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.

John Piper

#73. When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Walter Annenberg

#74. I stared at Irys. My Story Weaver had to be laughing his blue ass off right now. My future appeared to be a long twisted road fraught with knots, tangles and traps. Just the way I liked it.

Maria V. Snyder

#75. I know what love feels like, but this, this man ... fuck me. Steals my breath. Knots me up. Torches me."
"No, this is what denying love feels like, man. Why you denying your heart?

Adrian Phoenix

#76. She was tying him in knots. And he loved it.

J.M. Madden

#77. For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

Michelle Dockery

#78. up to twist her belly into knots. When it did, she'd just have to find a way to uncoil them until there was time, until there was a place. She had a whole checklist of priorities ahead of that one. On

Nora Roberts

#79. When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.

Douglas Wood

#80. Life ... it's like gettin' a blueberry muffin in a coffeeshop when what you ordered was the apricot-nut. There aren't any apricots or nuts in it, and you can get tied up in knots just thinkin' about what you're missin', when the smarter thing to do is realize that blueberries have a nice taste, too.

Dean Koontz

#81. In the bush he taught the knots I use to tie my blanket to my saddle Ds also the way I stand to use a carpenter's plane and the trick of catching fish with a bush fly and a strip of greenhide these things are like the dark marks made in the rings of great trees locked forever in my daily self.

Peter Carey

#82. Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Siri Hustvedt

#83. Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience

Isaac Asimov

#84. You wouldn't be twisting yourself into knots like this, Harry, if you didn't care."
"So?"
"Monsters don't care," Michael said. "The damned don't care, Harry. The only way to go beyond redemption is to choose to take yourself there. The only way to do it is to stop caring.

Jim Butcher

#85. Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.

Laozi

#86. Leaving knots untied and scattering seeds to distract them will only work on vampires with OCD.

Molly Harper

#87. The skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what he has bound will be impossible.

Lao-Tzu

#88. Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.

Catherynne M Valente

#89. There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a beetle.

Sam Smith

#90. My grandfather blasted in. "Aw now, hell, carolyn, don't go twisting the boy back up in knots all over again now that you finally got him straightened out. They aren't leprechauns, son. they're elves. Leprechauns are those little drunk motherfuckers from Ireland.

Augusten Burroughs

#91. Sunay shook her head, her temples starting to hurt as her mind tied itself in knots trying to untie the tangled mess presented to her. It was making too little sense to not make sense... which didn't make any sense.

Thomas Knapp

#92. They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#93. Victory won't come
to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till
knotted thirty times

Marianne Moore

#94. The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

Anita Diamant

#95. Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.

Harvey Cushing

#96. The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

William Hurt

#97. By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.

Ryan Reynolds

#98. One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

Ted Shackelford

#99. In the dark of the night, we're nothing but shadows. My feelings and thoughts are as tangled as unraveled yarn, loose ends and knots and bursts of violent color.

Delilah S. Dawson

#100. With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.

Kathryn Lasky