Bent Quotes

474 quotes by 406 authors

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. — Uri Geller
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. — Khalil Gibran
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. — Andre Gide
A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle. — Buddy Hackett
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. — Mia Hamm
I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent. — Tom Hanks
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual… — Amy Lee
At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own… — Seth MacFarlane
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher,… — Thurgood Marshall
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. — Michel de Montaigne
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet -… — Alanis Morissette
At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really. — Edward Norton
As the tree is bent, so it will grow. — Bill O'Reilly
Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely… — Bill O'Reilly
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on… — Edgar Allan Poe
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. — Alexander Pope
Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent… — Pat Robertson
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according… — Jane Smiley

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