Top 25 Tangled Quotes of 84 - Page 4

A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me

A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.

Elizabeth Marie Pope

Voice, Tangled, Missing

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

Eamon Duffy

History, Tangled, Messy

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

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Tangled, Trying, Stories

"Daniel Day-Lewis On Creating A Voice From The Past". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 9, 2012.

It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

D. H. Lawrence

Roots, Tangled, Dying

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3759, Delphi Classics

I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.

Colum McCann

Wind, Rivers, Tangled

Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.240, Bloomsbury Publishing

Europe is not a bright spot; it's all tangled up in its knickers with all that regulation.

Bobby Miller

Europe, Tangled, Underwear

Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road

Bob Dylan

Jail, Tangled, Mind

Song: Ballad of Donald White

A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.

Ann Brashares

Years, Long, Tangled

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.88, Random House