Tied Quotes

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.

I'm not tied to any particular political line.

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

Wouldn't it be great if we just ended up tied? I think it would be beautiful.

I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.'

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.