Adolf Galland
Adolf Galland

We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation.

Akshaye Khanna
Akshaye Khanna

I look upon Salman as an elder brother and want him to tie the knot first. Once he does that, I will settle down too.

Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce

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

Andra Day
Andra Day

I play with doing a forehead bun a lot, just a bantu knot right in front of the forehead and keep it in with a clip. And I like doing real pinup styles but based on my natural hair.

Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott

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.

Ashley Roberts
Ashley Roberts

I love a long, deep-tissue massage where they really get in there and remove the knots!

Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard

The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.

Bill Buford
Bill Buford

Tuscan sausages are smaller than their American cousins, each one demarcated with a string, a graceful loop drawn tightly into a knot - looping and tightening, looping and tightening, a symmetrically floppy, aesthetically appealing rhythm.

Cary Kennedy
Cary Kennedy

You don't have to look any farther than the state of California to know that having a 'Gordian knot' of conflicting measures acting upon on your state budget is a recipe for disaster.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky.