Tied Quotes

• I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Knowledge, Knowing Who You Are

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• They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

  Lou Reed

  Coffee, Blood, Evil

  Song: The Blue Mask

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• A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Memories, Imagination

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• I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

  Darren Shan

  Opportunity, Hands, Want

  Darren Shan (2007). “Cirque Du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan”

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• I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!

  Eddie Murphy

  Men, Shoes

  "Fictional character: Prince Akeem". "Coming to America", www.imdb.com. 1988.

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• How pleasant,' Dona said, peeling her fruit; 'the rest of us can only run away from time to time, and however much we pretend to be free, we know it is only for a little while - our hands and our feet are tied.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Running, Hands, Feet

  Daphne Du Maurier, Daphne Du Maurier (Dame) (1942). “Frenchman's creek”, Sourcebooks Landmark

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• Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Successful, Unique, May

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• Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Important, Quality

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• If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

  Frans de Waal

  Economy Today, Interesting, Chinese

  "Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2011.

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• If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

  Al Yankovic

  Kind, Motivated, Screenplays

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

  A. N. Wilson

  Believe, House, Church

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• A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

  Olivia Wilde

  Block, Emotional, Feet

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• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

  Mae West

  Relationship, Confidence, Sarcastic

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.

  Scott Weiland

  Creative, Want, Income

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• Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

  Christy Turlington

  Looks, Modeling, Profession

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• Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

  Serj Tankian

  Unique, Expression, Inspire

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

  Mark Udall

  Responsibility, Water, Drink

  "Celebrating Earth Day" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2012.

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• The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home.

  Gerhard E Frost

  Home, Together, Mountain

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• At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.

  Stephen Hawking

  Lonely, Writing, People

  "Stephen Hawking: 'I would consider assisted suicide'" by Jessica Elgot, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2015.

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• A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

  Thornton Wilder

  Men, Good Woman, Way

  Thornton Wilder (1965). “Our town: a play in three acts”

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• Hallelujah" "Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. She tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne, and she cut your hair. And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.

  Leonard Cohen

  Strong, Cutting, Hair

  Song: Hallelujah

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• Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

  Jodi Picoult

  Block, Thinking, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s a ripe, gassy odour, like rotting eggs and meat gone bad, crawling blind with maggots. It’s road kill and decayed food and body odour all rolled into one package and tied up with puke.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Dark, Hunting, Eggs

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• I'm a little frail girl, but I like being tied up, blindfolded and gagged so you can't move.

  Katie Price

  Girl, Moving, Littles

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• When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Leadership, War, Home

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