Distortion Quotes

133 Distortion quotes by 123 unique authors

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the… — John Petrucci
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 a… — Martin Parr
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence. — D. A. Carson
Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with… — Eugene H. Peterson
With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on… — Edward Kennedy
The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the… — Dweezil Zappa
We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. Â In addition, we must be capable of stating problems… — Jacque Fresco
As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits. — Joanna Hoffman
Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From this vantage point,… — Larry Graham
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto
The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is… — Jane Roberts
So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus was basically turned… — Naji Sabri
Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. — Ron Paul
We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity.… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always either distorted or… — Wilhelm Reich
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In… — Henry Moore
Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or another but against… — Marilyn Ferguson
I have tried every amp, distortion box, gadget etc. that has ever been made since 1967 to present and nothing has sounded like the Tonebone.… — Steve Lukather
I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's… — Jane Siberry
To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion… — Willard Gaylin
Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows… — Jon Pareles
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of… — Alexander Rodchenko
A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely… — Fawn M. Brodie
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination,… — Leo Tolstoy
Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality… — Georg Feuerstein

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