Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"If you get all tangled up, just tango on."
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Tangled
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Haruki Murakami
Writer
"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."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue."
Sherwood Smith
Author
"The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise."
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"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."
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"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!"
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"No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language."
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"I get all tangled up in your ribbons."
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"Frying pans! Who knew, right?"
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"If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise."
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"Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each."
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"Motivations are too tangled and complex."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories."
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"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"
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"Europe is not a bright spot; it's all tangled up in its knickers with all that regulation."
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"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."
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"'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'"
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"I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience."
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"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."
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"History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough."
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"Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up."
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"Your hair is a tangled mess,"he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane."
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