Top 82 Quotes About Tying Up
#1. Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!
Yasser Seirawan
#2. I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.
Michelle Kwan
#3. Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.
Margery Fish
#4. I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart.
Frank O'Hara
#5. The local fisherfolk were tying up for the night and crying the day's catch, but
George R R Martin
#6. I only tie up woman's body because I know I cannot tie up her heart. Only her physical parts can be tied up. Tying up a woman becomes an embrace.
Nobuyoshi Araki
#7. The continually moving mind is philosophically symbolized by the avatar Fudo Myo-o, the Wisdom King, often depicted holding a sword in one hand for cutting through ignorance, and a rope in the other for tying up passions.
Yagyu Munenori
#8. Hurt her and you'll meet me in hell. I'll be the one tying your dick in a knot. You'll be the one bleeding out your eyeballs. (Hunter)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#9. Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.
Jack Ohman
#10. Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
Buddy Guy
#11. Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying his shoelaces for him? Or when we stopped being able to laugh with each other? Looking back, that turning point is impossible to pinpoint. But then, that's the nature of dementia.
Judy Parfitt
#12. Books - all books - are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic.
Andrew Rilstone
#13. It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but future generations of American taxpayers. We're tying a millstone of debt around their necks, and it is a grave mistake.
John McCain
#14. Shit, boy. Look at me. Do they have me right now? Are you tying me up and hitting me and ... whatever? Did you trap me?"
"I ... " I shake my head.
"And do I look free?
Hannah Moskowitz
#15. We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.
Sandy Carter
#16. Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity's sake?
Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor Lyall, on the other hand, was pained. "I do what I can." Lord Akeldama looked at him, pity in his eyes. "You are a brave man.
Gail Carriger
#17. Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
Victor Hugo
#18. Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.
C.C. Wyatt
#19. She was tying him in knots. And he loved it.
J.M. Madden
#20. The biggest lesson was that if you were clear about what you wanted as leaders and then let people give it to you without tying their hands behind their backs, you got it.
Carmine Gallo
#22. Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
Robbie Coltrane
#23. If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Linda Ellerbee
#24. It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
Helen Rowland
#25. Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.
April Winchell
#26. There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.
Thomas Gibson
#27. Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young.
Theresa May
#28. Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up in fears that you may never realize
Wulfgar
R.A. Salvatore
#29. To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.
Donald McKay
#30. Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound alone raised my pulse to 120. Tying my feet into the stretchers increased it to 180. My maximum pulse was 200. I didn't need a warmup. I needed a sedative.
Stefan Kieszling
#31. He threw my father into a cold prison cell, then took me in his place! I think tying him up in front of a warm roaring fire is plenty generous, considering!
Liz Braswell
#32. He grinned. "Hey."
"Who are you?" I snapped, jerking the sides of my robe together and tying the sash.
His eyebrows shot up. "Most people I know respond to a greeting with another greeting.
Rachel Hawthorne
#33. The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.
Ellen Goodman
#34. Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#35. Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
Marcus Aurelius
#36. It's hard to feel smart when you're always forgetting things, but Mama Shannon says that's how you can tell a smart person. They're too busy thinking about Big Ideas to worry about little details like tying their shoes or remembering their homework" -Fella
Sarah Dooley
#37. The girl behind the counter was prim, but bad at tying ribbons. Inexcusable.
Haruki Murakami
#38. I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency.
Igor Luksic
#39. Depression is like a heaviness that you can't ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it's in your bones and your blood.
Jasmine Warga
#40. I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#41. It has come to the point where if I know I'm leaving a house with a man, I can factor in a bathroom visit or a phone call or both, and when I'm done, he'll almost be done tying his shoes.
Mindy Kaling
#42. This is how you know somebody loves you. When you can't tie your own shoes and they don't mind tying them for you.
Rose Christo
#43. Mrs. Glass watched him pull it on. She didn't stay for the tying of the lace, however.
Instead, she left the room.
J.D. Salinger
#44. In my very first Wrestlemania match, I won. 17 wins from tying the Undertaker. Don't laugh.
The Miz
#45. I hate gender stereotypes like girls love princesses and boys like guns ... my point is that tying particular behaviors and interests to particular gender seems to be the major reason guys who like dance get called names.
Melissa Kantor
#46. It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.
Sudhir Kakar
#47. Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.
Alex Haley
#48. Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.
Clay Shirky
#49. We're tying off string at the edge of Hampton's claim when I notice Jefferson staring at me. "You don't have to watch my eyes," I grumble. "When I sense gold, I'll tell you straight."
"That's not why I'm looking," he replies, and Hampton fails to keep the grin from his face.
Rae Carson
#50. In the years that she had been tying scraps to the branches, the tree had died and the fruit had turned bitter. The other apple trees were hale and healthy, but this one, the tree of her remembrances, was as black and twisted as the bombed-out town behind it.
Kristin Hannah
#51. He'd swiftly collected those monsters' heads, tying them together with a piece of the rope she'd hoped never to see again, then strung them over his shoulder. Periodically, he offered his catch to her.
"No, no, I have a pair just like them at home," she'd said. "I would just regift them.
Kresley Cole
#52. 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
#53. Did you feel me up when you were tying me down?"
"Um, no. Did you want me to?"
"Well, it would have been nice.
Lili St. Crow
#54. By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.
John Glenn
#55. This idea of tying me to Giuliani is quite unique. I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people.
Joseph J. Lhota
#56. Mike was right: the pattern of life isn't a straight line; it crosses and recrosses, drawing in and tying together other lives, as I do when I gather in the ends of my thread to make a knot.
Benedict Freedman
#57. For loose teeth the tooth fairy recommends tying your tooth to a brick and throwing said brick down the stairs.
Nicole McKay
#58. I confess, as much as I enjoyed you in breeches, you hold up that gown rather well."
"You truly have stopped tying to be charming."
"You're the most ravishing creature in the world, sweet Rue, even when hidden behind feathers and beads. How was that?
Shana Abe
#59. Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both.
Carol Bellamy
#60. The story told about him at Count Rostov's was true. Pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. He
Leo Tolstoy
#61. Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.
Dan Bejar
#62. Gods it's well done, she thought, bowing her head, acknowledging consummate work. She felt skeins of cause, effect, effort, and interaction tying around her. She felt things all coming together, pushing her into this place, at this time, having done this thing.
China Mieville
#63. 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
#64. I'm not much of a fly tier. I can do it - my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying' - and I tie some cool flies that I can't buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.
Jack Ohman
#65. We're closer than friends. It's like we've got this invisible thread tying us together.
Denise Grover Swank
#66. Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.
Bradley Chicho
#67. The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks.
Chuck Klosterman
#68. There," he said as he finished tying the laces on my left show. "Now you won't fall.
Too late.
Michelle Hodkin
#69. No matter what happens ... there will always be a string tying you to me. I'll never not worry about you. I'll never not care about what you do. You'll always be something to me.
Kiera Cass
#70. Be a gentleman, Lucas. No tying her up on the first date.
Melanie Harlow
#71. The problem with tying yourself to a cripple is that it doesn't make you stronger, it only makes you slower.
Billy Roper
#72. I couldn't see tying myself down with a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.
Joseph Heller
#73. Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the Memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.
Vannevar Bush
#74. I am so tired of begging your sorry ass, chasing your sorry ass down, tying your sorry ass up. ~ Mercy
Lucian Bane
#75. The way he looks at me, and touches me all the time ... It's like he's restraining himself from hog-tying me and dragging me out to the woods.
Kelly Oram
#76. Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
Albert Schweitzer
#77. I don't believe in being lazy, but I do think that this "big kid" thing may just be misinterpreting people who are taking advantage of all their opportunities and not tying themselves down to traditional gender roles or traditional life roles.
Desiree Akhavan
#78. If you've got a suicide wish, it's not my place to stop you tying the rope.
Anna Martin
#79. Reagan was looking at Nick like she was already tying him to the railroad tracks. Wren
Rainbow Rowell
#80. Naomi shrugged with her hands, then started pulling her hair behind her head and tying it up with a red elastic band.
James S.A. Corey
#81. I was young, not married, didn't have kids and I was like, "Why not just try for something now and see what happens while nothing's tying me down?" And, I've been fortunate, since I graduated, to work in the industry and keep on working.
Fiona Gubelmann
#82. Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!
William Shakespeare
