Twisting Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn. — Elton John
Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is BolaÃ±o playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if… — Stacey D'Erasmo

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