Twisting Quotes
93 quotes by 89 authors
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I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.
— Sandra Bullock
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I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting…
— Robertson Davies
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The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual…
— Walter Karp
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Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be…
— John Tukey
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For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her…
— Taylor Swift
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This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all…
— Christian Slater
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Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely as…
— Eric Metaxas
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The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists.…
— Betty Friedan
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The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than a…
— Melanie McGrath
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The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong,…
— George Orwell
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This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all…
— Mark Doty
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After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach... Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and…
— Lynn Caine
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There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of…
— Maria McCann
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same…
— Valentino Garavani
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The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this…
— Peter Kreeft
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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
— Elton John
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Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if…
— Stacey D'Erasmo
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