Roped In Quotes

#1. My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.

Rufus Wainwright

#2. I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.

Tom Felton

#3. I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, "Art, don't come in here." But that's maybe a deeper question ...

George Saunders

#4. I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

Veronica Roth

#5. Mae West had it right - try anything once, do it again if you like it.

Sindra Van Yssel

#6. Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#7. It was as though all the passengers on the Titanic were roped together, and the fattest guy had just fallen overboard.

Mitch Feierstein

#8. The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster.

Nick Cave

#9. No, Hanson, this is not the scene where the girl puts on a skirt and some paint and her schoolmate, who's a little thick, suddenly realizes that she is his true love."
"Oh," Ash said. "Good to know.

Cinda Williams Chima

#10. Ruger was over six feet tall, roped with muscle and annoyingly handsome in an I'm-probably-a-murderer-but-I've-got-dimples-and-a-tight-ass-so-you'll-still-lust-after-me kind of way.

Joanna Wylde

#11. Don't get roped into talking about something that you don't really have passion for, and don't get roped into something you don't have expertise in. Why should somebody listen to you? If you're going to take somebody's time, you better deliver.

Tony Robbins

#12. Stay away from Mistress Laera," said Frank, "or I'll find grounds to sue your ass off. Possibly for damaging my fist when I pound your pretty boy face in.

Sindra Van Yssel

#13. Least, that's what it looked like. A roped-off room in a castle somewhere, a room made entirely of blocks of stone, icy and cold, even though a fire burned low in the hearth. A room where doomed queens went to die.

Laura Ruby

#14. The body may be the home of the soul and the pathway of the spirit, but it is also the perversity, the stubborn resistance, the malign contagion of the material world. Having a body, being in the body, is like being roped to a sick cat.

Margaret Atwood

#15. My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.

Austin Butler

#16. You smell wonderful," he told her. "So aroused." "That's the bug spray," she said.

Sindra Van Yssel

#17. If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself.

Justin Theroux

#18. A layer of fine powder coats his skin.
"My lungs are turning to concrete," Rob wheezes, hacking and spitting.
"So are my eyes. How do I always get roped into these things?" Avery coughs and pats Rob's back in sympathy. A poof of dust billows from the contact.

Laura Kreitzer

#19. Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

Frank Lampard

#20. Well, " I began,"I've been roped into shenanigans."
Without preface, Catcher muttered a curse ,then leaned over slipped his wallet from his jeans, and pulled out a twenty-dollar bill, which he handed to Mallory.

Chloe Neill

#21. Compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust, ... trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams ...

Mary Roach

#22. I got roped into Twitter. I actually quite enjoy it! But I don't go on as often as some.

Amanda Tapping

#23. With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

Steve Martin

#24. Shane raised his brows when he set eyes on my apron. "Been roped into galley duties?" "Nah. I slaughtered Leo with an electric carving knife. I put this on so I could dismember his body without mucking up my t-shirt.

Gillibran Brown

#25. The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain.

Georges Braque

#26. Instead, I have the alien version of Grumpy Cat, and he just roped and tied me like a calf at a rodeo. Asshole.

Ruby Dixon

#27. Those who are roped into bed at night often fall into delusions of flight.

Gregory Maguire

#28. I can't say that I've ever actually got on a horse and roped a cow, no.

Blake Shelton

#29. And Lawrence was afraid of the main thing. He had a tendency to talk feverishly all around the main thing, as if bundling it with twine. Presumably if he talked in circles around the main thing for long enough it would lie there, vanquished, panting on its side, like a roped steer.

Lionel Shriver