What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image.

- Chuck Mangione

'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.

- Ellen Forney

You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.

- Ezra Koenig

It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.

- Emile Hirsch

I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.

- Evo Morales

I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.

- Ed Koch

I always liked to put on a tie. The more you look like an executive, the better treated you are. It catches people by surprise.

- Don Wright

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.

- David Hyde Pierce

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

- Dhani Jones

Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.

- Dhani Jones

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there.

- Clayton Christensen

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

- Bob Edwards

In general, the PC's always had a fairly decent tie to GDP.

- Brian Krzanich

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

- Brent Scowcroft

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

- Bill Nye

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

- Auberon Herbert

In an ordinary suit and tie, I'd look like a little macho. I'd be ridiculous.

- Azzedine Alaia

A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet.

- Alec Baldwin