Twisted Quotes - Page 8

• My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Cutting, Gone

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

  Dante Alighieri

  Path, Faces, Looks

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• There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it's got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is." "All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Snakes, Lovely

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• The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Tree, Generations

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Rainbow”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism. If Germans who were not even born before 1945 must pay reparations to the State of Israel, which did not exist until 1948, then you can be included in the Zionist racket of reparations and revenge.

  Ernst Zundel

  Revenge, Israel, Holocaust

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• It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.

  Jules Verne

  Eye, Animal, Eight

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.1685, Delphi Classics

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• The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

  Robert Fortune

  Sap, Branches, Flow

  Robert Fortune (1853). “Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya”, p.74

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• O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Christian, Believe

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.393, Penguin

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• Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Memories, Museums, California

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• Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

  Rabbi Akiva

  Wisdom, Men, Hands

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• Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.

  Ben Fong-Torres

  Laughter, Clever, Writing

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• At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.

  Mohammed Dib

  Nature, Reflection, Sky

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• Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.

  Rick Riordan

  Noble, Annoying, Sneaky

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• CBS announced they're canceling As The World Turns. Don't worry though, if you're addicted to the twisted plots, the intrigue, the illicit sex, you can still watch golf.

  Craig Ferguson

  Sex, Golf, Worry

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• My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, and it is the one I am most proud of. Xavi chipped the ball to me, I chested it down, twisted and hit an overhead kick. It was the final goal in a 4-0 win.

  Ronaldinho

  Winning, Goal, Finals

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• Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Keys, Giving

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 8,

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• I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
  And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.

  Etheridge Knight

  Angel, Tears, Spoons

  Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

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• The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.

  Laurie Lee

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Laurie Lee (2011). “Cider With Rosie”, p.36, Random House

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• Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.

  E. Jean Carroll

  Evil, Drug, Way

  E. jean Carroll (1997). “A Dog in Heat is a Hot Dog and Other Rules to Live By”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.

  Tracy Thompson

  Circles, Ivy, Anxiety

  Tracy Thompson (2014). “The Beast: A Journey Through Depression”, p.43, Diversion Books

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• Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Hate, Reality

  Song: My Jekyll Doesn't Hide, Album: Ozzmosis

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• But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fashion, Past, Years

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• The doctor looked at it after the game and he thought it didn't look too bad, but we'll see what happens. My skate got caught and I twisted it. I heard it twist and I couldn't get up. All my body weight fell on it. I had to be really hurt to leave the game - we were still in the game at that point.

  Martin Brodeur

  Hurt, Doctors, Body Weight

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• Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.

  Gary Snyder

  Summer, Rocks, Air

  Gary Snyder (1971). “The Back Country”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Play, People

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