Tied Quotes - Page 17

Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.

Bob Dylan

Philosophy, Flames, Ideas

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.

Lee Meriwether

Way, Roles, Schedules

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On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.

Lurlene McDaniel

Believe, Two, Stories

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Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.

Matthew McGrory

Girl, Nice, Character

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That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!

Robert McCloskey

Book, Acceptance, Necks

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I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

Dennis Lehane

Father, Struggle, Class

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Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

Sharad Pawar

Land, Birth, Humans

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Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?

Brandon Sanderson

People, Trying, Add

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You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

Chesley Sullenberger

Thinking, Organization, People

"Capt. Chesley Sullenberger". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. June 15, 2012.

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My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.

Alexander Wang

Mom, Baby, Kids

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The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.

Alexander Wang

People, Way, Lines

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But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

Dar Williams

Justice, Together, Environment

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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Vance Havner

Order, Alcohol, Church

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The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

Lawrence Lessig

Media, Danger, Produce

Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.

Ryan Lochte

Thinking, Rushing, Water

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U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.

Cliff Stearns

Availability, Energy, Prosperity

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Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

Laura Mulvey

Men, Order, Males

Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.15, Springer

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If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

Denise Chavez

Dry, Corn, Vat

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Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

Philip Rieff

Past, Men, Weight

Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.

Sue Thoele

Being Yourself, Mean, Emotional

Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.32, Conari Press

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The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

Walden Bello

Children, Hunger And Poverty, Land

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I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.

J. Robbins

Men, Thinking, Mtv

"Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don't want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn't want to repeat myself.

Carey Mulligan

Play, Trying, Want

Source: collider.com

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Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Men, Hands

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must.

Roger L'Estrange

Liberty, Should, Submit

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