Twists Quotes
342 Twists quotes by 298 unique authors
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You don't have to twist my arm to work.
— Henry Rollins
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I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much…
— Jerry Saltz
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I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.
— Richard Simmons
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Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it…
— Richard Simmons
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What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
— Donald Trump
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past…
— Vera Wang
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The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon…
— Earl Warren
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There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall…
— William Carlos Williams
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Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think!…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes…
— Edwidge Danticat
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves…
— Terry Pratchett
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And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he…
— Charles Dickens
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Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of…
— Charles Dickens
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Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
— Anais Nin
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After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a…
— Susanna Clarke
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Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.
— Rick Riordan
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but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist…
— John Kennedy Toole
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Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we…
— Jane Green
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And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say,…
— Arthur Machen
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