Distorted Quotes

205 quotes by 190 authors

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get… — Kristin Hersh
Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on account… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is distorted… — Joyce Tenneson
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated,… — Thomas Carlyle
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by… — Andre Gide
I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and… — Allison Williams
When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help. — Deepak Chopra
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of… — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and… — Hannah Hurnard
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I… — Alan Lightman
I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American… — Brad Carson
The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices. — Michael Dean Crapo
Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your… — Frederick Lenz
Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise… — Frederick Lenz
Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and… — Dalai Lama
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray… — Ayn Rand
The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness… — Emily Carr

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