Tying Together Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Anthony Hopkins

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Things can change in a day.

Arundhati Roy

#7. We're closer than friends. It's like we've got this invisible thread tying us together.

Denise Grover Swank

#8. Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.

C.C. Wyatt

#9. Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

Henry Edward Manning

#10. 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

#11. And the dog of my future, lying at my feet, is snoring now.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. when Neil finally bled to death, he was truly worthy of salvation. And God sent him to Hell anyway. Ethan

Ted Chiang

#13. 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