Loose Quotes

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. (T. S. Eliot)
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady. View quote
Edith Head
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. View quote
Thomas Paine
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. View quote
George Carlin
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
All our words from loose using have lost their edge. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. View quote
Laura Riding
When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose. View quote
Bob Dylan
Dostoyevsky is ahead of his time - a few daring steps. You follow him, dizzying, fearful, incredulous; but you follow. He won't let loose, you have to follow. ... You simply have to call him unique. He comes from nowhere and belongs nowhere. And yet he is always a Russian. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. (Augustine of Hippo)
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. View quote
Edward Albee
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. View quote
William Wordsworth
The past is a work of art, full of irrelevancies and loose ends. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them. View quote
George Duke
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep. View quote
Andy Warhol
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time. View quote
Dave Winfield
It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity. (Graham Coxon)
I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose. View quote
Herb Alpert
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. View quote
John Adams
Everybody's got a secret Sonny, Something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it; They carry it with them every step that they take. Till some day they just cut it loose. Cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions, Or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a phrenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted. View quote
Thomas Paine