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Motivations are too tangled and complex. -- Russell Banks
Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level -- Douglas Hofstadter
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! -- Walter Scott
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? -- Virginia Woolf
I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea. -- Ted Lindsay
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! -- Kate Chopin
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there. -- Dan Quayle
I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life. -- Karen Allen
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive. -- Ogden Nash
When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex. -- Randall Munroe
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. -- Sherwood Smith
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. -- Maya Angelou
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
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier. -- Tom Waits
The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it. -- William Allman
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble. -- Remy de Gourmont
Spending some time getting quiet can really be the best remedy for tangled situations. Taking a step back from all the emotion, frustration, and exhaustion to sit quietly with Jesus will do more to untangle a mess than anything else I've ever found. -- Lysa TerKeurst
If you want to learn to trust your vibes, you must maintain a peaceful and relatively calm attitude. When you're tense, nervous, or anxious, your energy gets tangled up and blocked and can't enter your heart center, where your Higher Self and your vibes communicate. -- Sonia Choquette
We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions. -- Banana Yoshimoto
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank. -- Steven Johnson
This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time. -- Haruki Murakami
"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution. -- Bob Dylan
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them. -- Rick Moody
More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of the history of Russia in Stalin's time and of her relations with the West. -- Robert C. Tucker
Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan. -- Christopher Moore
Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty. -- Jenny Han
We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq. -- Michael Scheuer
As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered. -- Ryan Holmes
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. -- Ogden Nash
You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way. -- Pierce Brosnan
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political. -- Andrew Dominik
Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark. -- Kary Mullis
The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery. -- Pete Seeger
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Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not. -- Henry L. Stimson
While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes. -- Elliott Abrams
Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I'm an obsessive music fan, I'm always seeking out new sonic thrills. -- Rob Sheffield
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck. -- John Berger
I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much. -- Matt Dillon
When you say '90210,' everyone knows what you're talking about. So why not make use of that? And they certainly have. I think the show looks beautiful, and all the actors are doing a great job. It's a tangled web they've created thus far. It's great. -- Jason Priestley
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'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself. -- Sophie Okonedo
I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me. -- Dorothy Hamill
Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born with tangled legs; they never thought I'd be able to dance... without knowing it, as a child I overcame a lot thanks to really doting, loving parents and a great family and a hard work ethic on my part. -- Lindsay Pearce
Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled. -- H. L. Mencken
If you get all tangled up, just tango on. -- Al Pacino
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions. -- Alain de Botton
History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are. -- Eamon Duffy
Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up. -- James Rollins
She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within. -- John Mark Green
Gently guide the tender vine else it become wild, tangled and impossible. -- Kathryn Hall
Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely. -- Laura Lee Guhrke
Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue. -- Bob Dylan
Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied. -- Josh Ritter
Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky. -- Laini Taylor
Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart. -- Kiera Cass
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. -- Arthur Koestler
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive. -- Walter Scott
I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory. -- Christina Stead
My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Damn, she was getting so tangled up by guilt and desire. ~Nikki in Texas Tangle -- Leah Braemel
A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser. -- Don Herold
We have time. Fear tangled into her clothes, cinched the shirt, spiraled into the veins. -- E.J. Koh
[...] the beginning of things, of a world especially is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. -- Kate Chopin
When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous. -- Stacy Allison
Europe is not a bright spot; it's all tangled up in its knickers with all that regulation. -- Bobby Miller
Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise. -- Rumi
Your hair is a tangled mess,"he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane. -- Kim Harrison
'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.' -- William Blake
If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path. -- Laurie Beth Jones
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one. -- Helen Rowland
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough. -- Henry Adams
Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom. -- John Carroll
It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled. -- Hugh Howey
In a dream I cannot see tangled abstract phallacy random turmoil builds in me i'm a addicted to chaos -Megadeth, Addicted to Chaos -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in. -- Po Bronson
Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all. -- Alexander Smith
I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair. -- Taylor Swift
The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower. -- James Joyce
Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot'em both, and then it's too late. -- M.L. Stedman
I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible. -- Frank Macfarlane Burnet
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken. -- Wallis Simpson
I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair. -- Stevie Nicks
In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos. -- Christopher Moore
No, I had never intentionally caused anyone physical pain, but I had hurt Ian deeply enough just by hurting myself. Human lives were so impossibly tangled. What a mess. -- Stephenie Meyer
The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh. -- Maureen Howard
All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines. -- D. H. Lawrence
I have seen and really liked the varied movie adaptations of the book, but 'Little Women' has a sprawling, richly tangled story that needs time and space to weave its magic. -- Susanna Kearsley
Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry. -- James Whitcomb Riley
We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities. -- Rudyard Kipling
Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain. -- Shannon L. Alder
How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew. -- Samuel Woodworth
You only see the top of a lily pad, but if you pull the lily pad out of the water, it has roots and tangled weeds and all the stuff that comes with it. -- Trevor Hall
To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity. -- Henry Steele Commager
Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter. -- Learned Hand
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind. -- Shannon Hale
Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together. -- Mal Peet
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. -- Luther Standing Bear

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