Convoluted Quotations

I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.

Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.

Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.

It becomes a big, convoluted thing in order to get me a memo that (for example) says the superintendent canceled a meeting for tomorrow night.

The fact that things are as convoluted as they are shows how Raul so dominates Hialeah politics. And there's a sense -- whether it's true or not -- that he's unbeatable.

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

We see it as a searing indictment of this convoluted drug program. People are faced with a bewildering array of for-profit insurance plans. These plans are seen as so complex and unreliable that many people in great need of help are staying on the sidelines.

Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett can take advantage of it. We need to simplify and flatten the code, get rid of all the loopholes.

They (the committee) just convoluted the language to where it doesn't have a meaning. The whole document has become wordy--so much of it can be interpreted in two different ways.

You don't want a name that's parochial, convoluted or doesn't clearly communicate what the product delivers.

It's a very convoluted issue. It's very tough..but the bottom line is the tax payers, the potential patients, will suffer. That's been our track record.

It's been a bit of a convoluted mess. We have such an eclectic group of people, it's hard for people to come together, to have time to meet and to agree on what is needed.

The book was about a 22-year legal battle, and let me tell you, that makes for a well-researched but very convoluted story,

It's a matter of appropriate disclosing. The federal law is somewhat convoluted in their ways of getting around different things, but in Virginia, it's a matter of anything in value greater than $50 is to be reported.

If there's one thing that strikes you when you look at both the state (organization) chart for governance and ours, it's how convoluted it is. This needs to be streamlined ... but we've got to have the confidence and the support of the campuses when we do that.

In my humble opinion, it's the single most convoluted benefit program in American history.

We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.