Tangled Quotes - Page 7

• There’s a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I’m obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw... And she runs into thorn bushes. And she’s getting tangled up in it because she’s running fast... But Sally needs to move slowly in order to get through the bushes - she will get farther faster by going slowly because her hair and clothes won’t get tangled and caught. There’s something really beautiful about understanding that, while someone’s chasing you with a chainsaw, you have to move more slowly in order to get away.

  Christopher Bollen

  Beautiful, Running, Moving

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

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• Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, Order

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.256, Pan Macmillan

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• They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Memories, Bird, Bed

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

  Maureen Howard

  Cristiano, Madre, Padre

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• Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales meant more than they do now, but perhaps less than they will someday, he draws a breath that releases the tangled knot of words in his heart, and they fall from his lips effortlessly. "The circus arrives without warning.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Fall, Heart, Warning

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• En el juego de palabras, dos hilos de pensamiento se enredan en un nudo acústico.

  Arthur Koestler

  Two, Coincidence In Life, Acoustics

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• Mil novecientos ochenta está a punto de llegar, gracias a Dios. los hippies se están haciendo viejos, se volaron los sesos con ácido y ahora piden limosna en las esquinas de todo San Francisco. Tienen el pelo enmarañado y los pies descalzos, gruesos y grises como zapatos. Estamos hartos de ellos.

  Jennifer Egan

  Hippie, Pelo, Zapatos

  Jennifer Egan (2010). "A Visit from the Goon Squad", p.31, Anchor

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• Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.

  H. L. Mencken

  Silver, Composer, Macaroni

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• The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness of one's position, privilege, and place, the lot one draws, and so on. It has made previously suspicious-seeming clichés seem more tolerable. Love may not be all you need, but it is certainly a necessity. My desire to survive has been exponentially magnified by the fact that there is someone intimately tangled up in me who would be left alone with the world.

  Ben Doller

  Desire, World, Illness

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music.

  Lynda Barry

  Canción, Odio, Pensamiento

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• A lot of kids were involved in such things as smoking weed and doing things illegal. I kind of fell into the crowd so to speak. Guys got tangled in some of those activities, and like I said I should have stayed away from it.

  John Starks

  Weed, Kids, Should Have

  Fuente: www.cyinterview.com

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• History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

  Eamon Duffy

  History, Messy, Contradictory

  Eamon Duffy (2006). “Faith of Our Fathers”, p.77, A&C Black

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• I'm also lonely. I'll admit it. I go to Twitter because I'm lonely. I get my coffee in the morning, and I live alone. I get on Twitter, and I sit and have my coffee. Sometimes I'll look at it for 30 minutes. I will waste a lot of time on Twitter. I do! But it's my guilty pleasure. And I'll look for some happy stories to retweet, and I'll say some uplifting things to people. I try not to get caught into - I used to get tangled up into some crazy stuff. But I try not to do that anymore.

  Andie MacDowell

  Uplifting, Lonely, Morning

  Fuente: www.mtv.com

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• Las leyes orgánicas de la construcción me enredaban en mis deseos, y sólo con gran dolor, esfuerzo y lucha rompí estos "muros en torno al arte".

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Arte, Pared, Dolor

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• A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

  Don Herold

  Marriage, Men, Hair

  Don Herold (1930). “Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not”

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• "Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Blue, Perspective

  Fuente: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their wearer! What happens then is no less than the infusion, into some tangled lines on a piece of paper, of the meaning of a great word.

  Robert Musil

  Clothes, Quality, Lips

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• Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just like having soft clay until it hardens. At least as much of the problem has to do with the decisions of what to represent, how to represent that, and how to reduce it down. The words in the balloons aren't particularly poetic necessarily, but it has the same problem as poetry, which is that one has to do great reduction. And if I tried to draw everything, you'd just have a tangled mess of a picture. The stripping down takes much longer than building up.

  Art Spiegelman

  Decision, Computer, Problem

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• All the wild sweetness of the flower
  Tangled against the wall.
  It was that magic, silent hour....
  The branches grew so tall
  They twined themselves into a bower.
  The sun shown ... and the fall
  
  Of yellow blossom on the grass!
  You feel that golden rain?
  Both of you could not hold, alas,
  (both of you tried, in vain)
  A memory, stranger. So I pass....
  It will not come again.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Wall, Memories, Spring

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). "Los cuadernos de Katherine Mansfield"

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• I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and animals and the ants- perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you in your mother's womb. Is it logical you would be walking around entirely orphaned now? The truth is you turned away yourself, and decided to go into the dark alone. Now you are tangled up in others, and have forgotten what you once knew, and that's why everything you do has some weird sense of failure in it.

  Kabir

  Mother, Dark, Animal

  Kabir (1977). "El libro de Kabir: cuarenta y cuatro de los poemas extáticos de Kabir".

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• El oscuro y peligroso bosque sigue ahí, amigos míos. Más allá del espacio de los astronautas y los astrónomos, más allá de las oscuras y enmarañadas regiones de la psiquiatría freudiana y junguiana, más allá de los dudosos reinos psi del Dr. Rhine, más allá de las zonas vigiladas por los comisarios y los sacerdotes y los hombres que investigan las motivaciones, mucho, mucho más allá de las risas locas, palpitantes y medio histéricas... lo totalmente desconocido sigue ahí y lo espeluznante y fantasmal acecha, tan envuelto en el misterio como siempre.

  Fritz Leiber

  Laughter, Motivation, Dark

  Fritz Leiber (2016). “The Second Fritz Leiber MEGAPACK®”, p.91, Wildside Press LLC

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• The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.

  Steven Johnson

  Art, Mistake, Writing

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.156, Penguin

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• No, no, la mente que amo debe seguir teniendo lugares salvajes: un huerto enmarañado donde los ciruelos oscuros caen sobre la hierba espesa, un bosquecillo cubierto de maleza, la posibilidad de ver una o dos serpientes (serpientes de verdad), un estanque cuya profundidad nadie ha descifrado y senderos enhebrados con esas florecillas plantadas por el viento.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Amor, Sueño, Flor

  "Cuadernos de Katherine Mansfield".

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• What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. “Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.

  Veronica Roth

  Sleep, Eye, Tunnels

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• We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.

  Plátano Yoshimoto

  Dream, Memories, School

  Banana Yoshimoto (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.117, Grove Press

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