Ties Quotes

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."

I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free.

I rarely saw people sitting at computers producing real code wearing ties.

She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant.

I try to avoid political ties.

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

Not conceding a goal at home is always important in a Cup tie. But despite that there is no doubt that this tie is still wide open.

Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.

I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

It's actually four, because the fifth state they get the advantage with a tie. It's literally four states out of 50, 57 if you're [Barack] Obama.

I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?

It is always our objective to have close ties with the United States. We're at a transitional period of our history and we're on a road to reform.

I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins.

If I wear bright colors or something, I'll tie all my hair back. I don't want to look too like 'Girls Next Door.'

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.

I have a dresser, who literally is a guy who makes sure the tie is right. It's a little bit of a process. I could probably do it by myself, but it would take me three times as long.

There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.

I think the idea of family and protecting the family is something that ties a lot of these women together.

Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.

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.

It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.

I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything.

I've worn a suit and tie for most of my life. And I believe (for me), it makes me more confident navigating the world.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.

Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.

The purse strings tie us to our kind.

There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

The main thing in a cup tie is to get through.

A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.

We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade.