The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the…

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

— Mencius

When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

— Ovid

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All the contortions we go through just not to be ourselves for a few hours.”

— Keith Richards

“The contortions of the gargoyles were the only therapy we had.”

— Sasha Martin

I think there's a certain poetry to having your body reflect what you feel inside of you. Perhaps you have a feeling that's so…

— Arca

“If someone had the ability to sit at every table at once, he would hear nothing but good about himself, and yet even such…

— Joseph Roth

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

— Edmund Burke

What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs,…

— Marvin Minsky

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

— Tommy Armour

“We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and…

— Matthew Fox

“Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can buy them…

— Lionel Shriver

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising…

— Steven Pressfield

There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and…

— Slavoj Žižek

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

— Michael Moore