Knots Quotes - Page 3

• I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.

  Arthur Golden

  Thinking, Mind, Swallowing

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• I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

  Janet Fitch

  Wish, Oleanders, Broke

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• My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.

  Sara Bareilles

  Crazy, Hair, Iron

  "Sara Bareilles' New Album!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

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• Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and you start cutting the shape that you think you want it to be. But you find, if you do it right, that the wood has a grain of its own (characters develop and present new insights, concentrated thinking about the story opens new avenues). If you're sensible, you work with the grain and, if you come across a knot hole, you incorporate that into the design. This is not the same as 'making it up as you go along'; it's a very careful process of control.

  Terry Pratchett

  Character, Writing, Cutting

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• You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?

  Sri Chinmoy

  Opportunity, Long, Fool

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

  Walter Annenberg

  Blessing, Ties, Boredom

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• You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

  Donna Mills

  Roles, Shows, Landing

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• It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

  William Devane

  Want, Wells

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• 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

  Education, Cutting, Science

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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

  Ted Shackelford

  Relax, Glad, Happened

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• A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

  William Devane

  Missing You, Doe, Opera

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• 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

  Couple, Fun, Directors

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• Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Yield, Political, Battle

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 30

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• I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

  Joan Van Ark

  New York, Stars, Play

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• ...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters

  Gunter Grass

  Hands, Left Hand, Fists

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• Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.

  Philip Sidney

  Peace, Sleep, Insomnia

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 39

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• Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

  Horace

  Cutting, Failing, Ridicule

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• Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Dream, Stories, Made

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.137, Macmillan

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• I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sweaters, Sheep, Family And Friends

  The Writers Write Interview, writerswrite.co.za. February 10, 2015.

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• 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

  Ties, Victory, Grapes

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.125, Penguin

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• There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hate, Believe, Odin

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• To want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind and open.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Ties, Mind, Relax

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• Always double-knot your sneakers. One of my teammates once lost a shoe during a game!

  Heather Mitts

  Games, Sneakers, Shoes

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• Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Running, Character, Looks

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fall, Cat, Eye

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