Twists Quotes - Page 14

• In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out.

  Phillip Lopate

  Mind, Plot, Stories

  Phillip Lopate (2013). “To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Chicago, Doe

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Fate, God Has A Plan

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie. Men are spoilt by frankness, I believe, yet I must tell you that I love you better than I supposed I did, when I promised to love you forever....I feel it thrilling through my frame, giving and promising pleasure.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Believe, Love You, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet M. Todd (2003). “The collected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft”

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• I really like the spooky twists and the intense mystery. I think the various plot devices work really well for TV, but they are still also in the spirit of Pretty Little Liars as a whole. I also really liked Spencer's breakdown in the previous season after Toby betrayed her. The girls have had breakdowns of sorts in the books, so it was fun to see that on-screen.

  Sara Shepard

  Girl, Fun, Liars

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Hero, Heart, Emotional

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So many of my memories are generated by and organized around food: what I ate, what people cooked, what I cooked, what I ordered in a restaurant. My mental palate is also inextricably intertwined with the verbal part of my brain. Food, words, memories all twist together, so it was the obvious way to structure my life. Each memory of food opened up an entire scene for me, it was the key that unlocked everything.

  Kate Christensen

  Memories, Keys, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

  Katharine Kerr

  Fiction, Literature, Fantasy

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• We have all the technology to record things in the streets. Now the historians cannot twist it or change it, because we have cellular phones or video cameras, and we are filming in the streets what's going on. We have the voices of everybody recorded. There's too much recording and I think that's wonderful.

  Isabel Allende

  Technology, Thinking, Phones

  "Author Isabel Allende". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2010.

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• I often eat Skippys Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I dont shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open.

  Willie Geist

  Dark, Night, Sneak In

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• Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Prayer, Sky, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir John Gilbert (1858). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow ... A Complete Edition, Including the Song of Hiawatha. With Illustrations by J. Gilbert, Etc”, p.73

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• When it comes to dating, Im straightforward and traditional with a twist.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Dating, Straightforward, Traditional

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• I'm always surprised to see the way "friends" will twist things or trash people behind their backs.

  Ariana Madix

  People, Way, Trash

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" - is a very odd voice, in the sense that it seems to be celebrating but almost mourning at the same time. There's a quality of mourning to his voice, which is very enigmatic.

  Alasdair MacLean

  Voice, Forever, Mourning

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.

  Victoria Legrand

  Interesting, Trying, Want

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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• I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout".

  Steve Diggle

  Sound, Cigarette, Lennon

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Steve Rannazzisi, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, Jon Lajoie - and they're such funny guys that they bring their own sort of twist to it all.

  Katie Aselton

  Guy, Funny Guy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Twist my Body like the Exorcist.

  Foxy Brown

  Body, Exorcist

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• I practice Buddhism, so I meditate daily, which helps keep me centered and reminds me not to get my knickers in a twist over the things that are not within my control. There is a saying: "If it can be changed, then no need to worry; if it can't be changed, then no need to worry!"

  Rosie Fellner

  Buddhism, Practice, Worry

  "Rosie Fellner: Celebrating Kindness and Differences". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results. Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.

  James C. Collins

  Organization, Ironic, Lasts

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• the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell
  buoys,
  advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which
  dropped things are bound to sink--
  in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor
  consciousness.

  Marianne Moore

  Ocean, Sea, Noise

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.102, Univ of California Press

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• God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

  Joan Rivers

  Play, Tragedy, Comedy

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• ... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Religious, Differences

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• I always, I would say, make sure that in my presentation I'll have what I want to do. I try and make it so interesting to my companions that they want to go, too. I don't have to twist any arms or make - you know - any great challenges available.

  Edmund Hillary

  Interesting, Challenges, Trying

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. Janury 26, 2008.

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• Everything is nothing, with a twist.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Aug 01, 2014

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