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Quotes About Unravel

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
~ Jason Isaacs
The last scroll was rolled so tight it seemed almost solid. Likely it was the oldest. As I forced it open it broke in pieces: two, three, and eventually five. I regretted doing it, but it was the only way to read it. If it had stayed coiled much longer, it would have crumbled into bits, never to be read again.
~ Robin Hobb
The future was spun from moments like this. If she backed away, it might all unravel.
~ Alice Hoffman
Since she could not unravel the tangle, she must take care not to re-enter it.
~ E. M. Forster
The vast percentage of any mushroom, it turns out, lives underground, in a network of extremely fine fibers, or hyphae, that prowl the soil gathering nutrients. A single cubic centimeter of dirt might contain as much as two thousand meters of hyphae. Rome is like that, I think. The bulk of it lies underground, its history ramified so densely under there, ten centuries in every thimbleful, that no one will ever unravel it all.
~ Anthony Doerr
It's amazing how quickly it can all fall apart.
~ Anthony Horowitz
We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.
~ Yoko Ono
The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
~ Fred Alan Wolf
My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.
~ Kenny Loggins
Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us.
~ Jacqueline McKenzie
I wish I could unpick the stitches of time that have become all tangled and twisted together.
~ Sally Gardner
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. And now for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda. Her attack and her bowing are splendid. What's that little thing of Chopin's she plays so magnificently: Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Nos encontramos con el hilo rojo del asesinato enroscado en la madeja incolora de la vida, y nuestro deber consiste en desenmascararlo, aislarlo y exponerlo hasta la última pulgada.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I have ever come across: a study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. -Sherlock Holmes
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.
~ Ellen Goodman
Most mysteries are soluble in time.
~ Austin O'Malley
There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I left Holmes seated in front of the smouldering fire, and long into the watches of the night I heard the low melancholy wailings of his violin, and knew that he was still pondering over the strange problem which he had set himself to unravel.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
... as we travel again between life and death, Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers, None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us . . .
~ Jay Woodman
You know as well as I do that your voice is just pandering to a biased audience. No matter how twisted your games, the truth will always unravel them.
~ Becky Cloonan