I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
“You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times.” — Fuminori Nakamura Copy Share Image
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.” — Matt McCook Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.” — A.H. Septimius Copy Share Image
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience,… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned about the increasing distortion of research by the intrusion of the market. Universities are beginning to see science as… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But,… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion. — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits. — Joanna Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It is in opposing the world’s lies that we impose truth in our hearts.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The topic of instincts is tough to dissect. But one can gain an understanding by observing the behaviour of animals.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion. — J Mascis Copy Share Image
“Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
“Beware of my partisanship, my mistakes of fact, and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
