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Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing. -- Ted Shackelford
Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me. -- Ted Shackelford
It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore. -- William Devane
I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing. -- Joan Van Ark
You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith! -- Donna Mills
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. -- Jean Toomer
Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years. -- Joan Van Ark
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. -- Walter Annenberg
One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax. -- Ted Shackelford
You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots. -- Willie Stargell
By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'. -- Ryan Reynolds
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. -- Matthew Fox
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on. -- William Devane
A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing. -- Brian Austin Green
When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots. -- Bill Burr
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. -- Julia Child
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. -- Jean Cocteau
The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place. -- Anita Diament
All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever. -- A. E. Housman
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. -- Ambrose Bierce
When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience. -- Douglas Wood
For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots. -- Michelle Dockery
Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie. -- Siri Hustvedt
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie. -- Bill Nye
...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
We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation. -- Adolf Galland
I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human. -- Jean Vanier
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard. -- Simon Newcomb
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. -- Edith Wharton
One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage - it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much less tense after I've gotten rid of some knots in my shoulders and back. -- Noureen DeWulf
I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic. -- Philippe Petit
With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots. -- Kathryn Lasky
We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it. -- Prince Charles
The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart. -- Janet Fitch
My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?' -- James Callis
My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in. -- Sara Bareilles
We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence. -- John Piper
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
There are so many rules in Judaism, and if you get into them and you get obsessed and you have the kind of life that I have, it can make you a very unhappy person. It can make everything complicated and more stressful than it needs to be, so I kind of loosened the knots a little bit. -- Matisyahu
Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit. -- Charlaine Harris
The world is bound in secret knots. -- Athanasius Kircher
The knots in the wood can't be untied -- Marty Rubin
He took a duck in the face at 250 knots. -- William Gibson
If you can't tie good knots, tie plenty of them -- Gary Jobson
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. -- Barbara Tuchman
Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one. -- Rumi
Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing. -- Laozi
Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied. -- Josh Ritter
When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released. -- Reshad Feild
Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one. -- Rumi
To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village. -- Andrea Gibson
Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots. -- F. Lee Bailey
When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE! -- Judith Orloff
History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. -- Orson Scott Card
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns. -- Gabriela Mistral
The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright -- William Hurt
Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different. -- Fred Rogers
It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled. -- Hugh Howey
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. -- Margaret Atwood
...where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united... -- D. H. Lawrence
Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log. -- Harvey Cushing
I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids. -- Rick Riordan
Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you." -- Maria V. Snyder
Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you. -- Maria V. Snyder
Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. -- Laozi
In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage. -- Conn Iggulden
To want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind and open. -- Tenzin Palmo
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. -- Francis Bacon
Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots. -- Suzanne Collins
I have knots in my years that I can`t undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught -- Sue Monk Kidd
Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union. -- Laozi
You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me... -- Katy Evans
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I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life. -- Antonin Artaud
i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots -- Saul Williams
The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots... -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope. -- Jennifer Stone
I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so many knots it could make a boy scout envious. -- Colleen Hoover
That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears. -- Peter Heller
I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots. -- Dallas Roberts
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing. -- Jeanette Winterson
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence. -- Edgar Friedenberg
There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a beetle. -- Sam Smith
To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold. -- Zadie Smith

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