Twisted Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

  Franz Kafka

  Morning, Heart, Knives

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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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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• [My advice] will one day be found
  With other relics of 'a former world,'
  When this world shall be former, underground,
  Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled,
  Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned,
  Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled
  First out of, and then back again to Chaos,
  The Superstratum which will overlay us.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Science, Advice

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.212

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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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• 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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• How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich

  Children, Parent, Wish

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1838). “Fireside Education ...”, p.102

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• At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

  T.C. Boyle

  Prayer, Hands, Joy

  T.C. Boyle (1999). “T.C. Boyle Stories”, p.348, Penguin

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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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• 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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• I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.

  Alber Elbaz

  Sports, Morning, Hate

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• I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

  Roald Dahl

  Doubt, Mind, Tragedy

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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 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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• If, as consumers, we can change our mindset so that we see gnarled, twisted, lumpy or otherwise imperfect produce as beautiful, we can create demand, change the system and ultimately help feed the world.

  Dana Cowin

  Beautiful, World, Demand

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

  Weyes Blood

  Musician, Female, Victim

  "An Older, Wiser Weyes Blood". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2014.

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• You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own country, and one's own church. These ties that bind are vital to our communities and our lives, but they can also be twisted into a noose.

  Bill Moyers

  Loyalty, Country, Passion

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• As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for all sorts of ugly, twisted metal to be displayed in front of or inside government buildings, in the name of 'art' that was obviously never meant to give the public any enjoyment and often represented a thumbing of the artist's nose at the public.

  Thomas Sowell

  Art, Government, Names

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• If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach.

  John Muir

  Sweet, Lying, Civilization

  Gary Snyder, Tom Killion, John Muir (2002). “The High Sierra of California”

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• I love dark humor. I love things that are so grounded in life, but just happen to be just a little bit twisted because my sense of humor is a little bit twisted. I love jokes that shouldn't be funny, but are. Those types of things just really make me laugh.

  Rockmond Dunbar

  Dark, Laughing, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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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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• Anyone who would laugh at a recital is probably some sort of lunatic anyway. I mean, only a sick, twisted mind could be that rude and ignorant.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mean, Sick, Laughing

  "Fictional character: Jerry Seinfeld". "Seinfeld/ The Pez Dispenser", January 1992.

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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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