Sin is the distortion of love.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one…

— C. S. Lewis

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us...

— C. S. Lewis

I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous…

— Camille Paglia

The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of…

— Dweezil Zappa

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition.…

— Camille Paglia

I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got…

— Rob Brown

I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and…

— Sharon Olds

If you ignore somebody's record and only focus on something that happened 25 years ago when all they were doing even then was trying…

— Keith Ellison

Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

— Ambrose Bierce

The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it…

— Gisele Freund

RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and…

— Sarah Palin

I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't…

— Jeff Beck

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was…

— Martin Parr

The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,…

— Umair Haque