Wound Up Tight Quotes

#1. Her whole body was wound up tight. She was ready to storm the palace herself - an army of one.

Marissa Meyer

#2. To love is to destroy, to be the one loved is to be the one destroyed

Cassandra Clare

#3. I'm tightly wound. I'm a loose cannon. Both - I'm a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose.

Jonathan Lethem

#4. I'm only just discovering that how someone behaves in everyday life gives no clue how they'll be when it counts.

Rosamund Lupton

#5. Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do

Mark Hatfield

#6. Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

Justin Timberlake

#7. We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words ...

Roman Abramovich

#8. I will defeat sorrow[]I will stand my ground and be strong. I don't know when it will be but someday, I will conquer it. And I will do it without false hope.

Yuna

#9. I would not touch the ring; the thought of a ring around my finger always made me feel tied tight, because rings had no openings to get out of, but I liked the watch chain, which twisted and wound around my hand when I picked it up.

Shirley Jackson

#10. Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

Jello Biafra

#11. The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management.

Maureen Dowd

#12. Are you wet for me?"
"Oh, f**k, sunshine, you are so wet."
"I am wound too tight Becca. Do you understand? in about ten seconds, I'm going to be all over you. And I'm not going to be able to go slow. It's gonna be hard and fast and rough.

Laura Kaye

#13. You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.

Sam Altman

#14. Being a doctor he didn't want for choices, but also being a doctor he understood the fragility of bone and sinew that encompassed the even more fragile organ of the heart. He envisioned Therese's as being wound in intricate, tight, vinelike veins that he would slowly make sense of and unravel.

Tara Lynn Masih

#15. If there is gossip to be garnered, garner it. If there are new dress styles to be imitated, imitate them. If there are hearts to be broken, break them.
That's my girls.

Gail Carriger

#16. * Success has made failures of many men.

Cindy Adams

#17. Here I am, the artist, the person, the black woman, and the stereotype. I'm using myself and it has nothing to do with my muses or other women. It has to do with me. You see parts of my body moving, very collage like, flashing, and not speaking, just laying on a couch, looking out at the viewer.

Mickalene Thomas

#18. I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

John Green