“ It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man. ”
- Augusta Gregory- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
- 423
“ The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 305
“ I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. ”
- Vance Havner- Copy
- 871
“ Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny. ”
- Will Eisner- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon. ”
- Edna Ferber- Copy
- 50
“ Hi vibrato sounded like he was driving a tractor over a ploughed field with weights tied to his scrotum. ”
- Spike Milligan- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide. ”
- Dan Rather- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 67
“ A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ People ask me if I've ever been called a Nazi. I answer that no one has ever had dreams of being tied down and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal. ”
- P.J. O’ROURKE- Copy
- 503
“ We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. ”
- Tom Stoppard- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. ”
- Jef Raskin- Copy
- 1.1K
“ A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another. ”
- Joan C. Harvey- Copy
- 466
“ If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it. ”
- Verda Ross- Copy
- 2.6K
“ If you let your happiness become completely tied on your relationships, then your happiness will fluctuate as your relationships do. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up. ”
- David Duchovny- Copy
- 3K
“ The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown. ”
- Adrienne Rich- Copy
- 2.8K
“ When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying… ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning. ”
- Colin Baker- Copy
- 1.2K
“ After a sabbatical from radio for nearly a year, I needed to work with Charlie again. Ventriloquism is not like riding a bicycle. I have to keep practicing or Charlie would sit tounge-tied, silently staring at me with the chill eye of a department store dummy. ”
- Edgar Bergen- Copy
- 366
“ In defense of some of the bands that echo the bands of yesteryear, I don't think that's a bad thing necessarily if more people did it, because certain standards, certain styles, are formed, and then they get kinda chucked away too fast, because music is kinda too tied up with fashion. ”
- Frank Black- Copy
- 972
“ The carnival was the predecessor to the burlesque world-this all tied together, the psychic, the hypnotic… That gave me a good foundation for playing the girlie shows, my opportunity to play for female dancers. I also played midway music and worked the sex shows. ”
- Anton LaVey- Copy
- 1.9K
“ It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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