Distorted Quotes

205 quotes by 190 authors

See, the â€˜small stuffâ€™ is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is… — Andy Andrews
Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find… — Stacy Schiff
It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want. — Amy Tan
I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the… — Haruki Murakami
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity â€“ that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment,… — Charles Baudelaire
In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind… — Samuel R. Delany
Not to mention, weâ€™re using you for bait. (Syn) Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian) What? I wasnâ€™t supposed to tell her that? (Syn) Iâ€™m bait?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic. — Lori Foster
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. Itâ€™s… — Andre Gide
The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact,… — Freeman Dyson
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject… — Christopher Hitchens
Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation,… — Christopher Nolan
Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a… — Hermann Hesse
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own… — Daphne du Maurier
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. — Flannery O'Connor
Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the… — Laini Taylor
So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to… — Sue Grafton
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. — Haruki Murakami
I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see… — Catherynne M. Valente
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is… — Alan Watts

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