287 Quotes About Ties

My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?

I've never been part of a tie. You didn't lose, but you didn't win.

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is that time is rigid, and no matter how hard you try, it will always spring back toward a determined present. Myself, I do not worry about such trivialities. I simply sell ties to anyone who wants to buy one...

Возьмите в пространстве две любых точки, два любых предмета – и между ними можно провести связывающую их линию. Между всеми вещами на свете существуют эти невидимые штрихи, все ими взаимосвязано и нерасторжимо. И расстояния здесь не играют никакой роли – линии эти растягиваются, как резиночки, только еще сильнее связывая предметы.

Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.

They were once glued to me like summer flies, But when I sealed my purse, they severed ties