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The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage. -- Athol Fugard
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate. -- Omar Khayyam
When I do tie the knot, it will be one time, for good. -- Shemar Moore
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. -- Stefano Gabbana
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth. -- John Lyly
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. -- Jean Cocteau
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. -- Ambrose Bierce
I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort! -- Zoe Sugg
The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent. -- Tina Brown
Tuscan sausages are smaller than their American cousins, each one demarcated with a string, a graceful loop drawn tightly into a knot - looping and tightening, looping and tightening, a symmetrically floppy, aesthetically appealing rhythm. -- Bill Buford
Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot. -- LZ Granderson
Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience. -- Olivia Thirlby
I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action. -- Philippe Petit
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. -- Hunter S. Thompson
In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. Once, at the premiere of the opera, I got to La Scala before Domenico, and I was hiding in the corner until he arrived, and I said, 'Quick, you have to tie my tie, please!' Otherwise, I'll wear a tuxedo jacket with jeans and my bling-bling cross. -- Stefano Gabbana
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. -- Anne Lamott
A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers. -- William Shakespeare
Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot. -- William Shakespeare
the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot. -- Anne Sexton
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. -- Horace
Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding. -- T. S. Eliot
When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope -- Dean Koontz
A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it. -- Laozi
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. -- Arthur Koestler
Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart. -- Kiera Cass
We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie. -- Michael Ondaatje
It's not an accidental entanglement; it's an intentional knot. Love belongs with belonging. -- Brene Brown
I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot. -- Rachel Gibson
If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart. -- Cooper Edens
When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck -- W. C. Fields
The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide. -- Dan Rather
Always double-knot your sneakers. One of my teammates once lost a shoe during a game! -- Heather Mitts
If I spray it on the seat, lady gonna tie a big knot in the meat. -- Alice Cooper
Each obsession is a knot in your being. Once it is opened, great energy is released -- Rajneesh
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. -- Rumi
Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach. -- Ann Aguirre
O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie. -- William Shakespeare
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns. -- Gabriela Mistral
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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie. -- Joseph Glanvill
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both. -- Carol Bellamy
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song. -- Jacob Grimm
How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life. -- Paul Celan
Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot. -- Jodi Picoult
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How delicious is the winning Of a kiss at Love's beginning, When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there's no untying! -- Thomas Campbell
But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it. -- Martha Ostenso
A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot. -- Justine Larbalestier
I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277) -- Maria Semple
I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ... -- James Hurst
It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language. -- Hilaire Belloc
...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters -- Gunter Grass
How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor. -- Rosemary Verey
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature. -- Sri Aurobindo
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible. -- Italo Calvino
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces. -- Suzanne Collins
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us. -- Glenway Wescott
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
You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you?" The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. "Sure, do you have one handy? -- Ilona Andrews
I double-knot my shoe laces. It's a pain untying your shoes afterward-particularly if you get them wet-but so is stopping in the middle of a race to tie them. -- Hal Higdon
You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life? -- Sri Chinmoy
Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with. -- Ralph Lauren
Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared. -- Eileen Simpson
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
I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies. -- John Donne
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low. -- Philip Sidney
Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot." -- Neal Shusterman
Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there's some of that too. -- Suzanne Collins
Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot. -- Neal Shusterman
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible. -- Leo Tolstoy
Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train. -- Calvin Trillin
So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops And they couldn't grow up any higher; So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot, For all lovers true to admire. -- Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell
'The grief didn't fade, but it changed into something I could carry around with me, a noose I wore around my neck. It wasn't until I saw you that the knot loosened.' -- Sara Bell
God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder. -- Thomas Watson
Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ... -- T. S. Eliot
Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage. -- Ben Affleck
Are you entirely sure of that knot?' asked Morveer. 'There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop'.'Twenty-eight strides', said Friendly.'What?''The drop'.A brief pause, 'That is not helpful'. -- Joe Abercrombie

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