Knot Quotes

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

'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.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

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.

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself.