Twists Quotes - Page 18

• A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Track, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1849). “The auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and poetry: from my life”, p.114

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• Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.

  John Milton

  Couple, Hate, Law

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• Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.

  Marge Piercy

  Self, Views, Trying

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives”, p.6, PM Press

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• Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.

  Shana Alexander

  Marriage, Spiritual, Emotional

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• Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprème de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croûtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Beautiful, Thinking, Gadgets

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• The film business has so many twists and turns that its a miracle any film gets made.

  Peter Hambleton

  Miracle, Film, Made

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• Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.

  Alice Temperley

  Style, Classic, Bohemian

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• I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both are artificial forms. Both start off in one direction and then, with a twist of the concluding couplet/surprising ending, both reveal that they were headed somewhere different all the time.

  Margaret Maron

  Writing, Thinking, One Direction

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• All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don't do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you. And the world is such a gloriously multifaceted, diverse place that there are people in the world who will like you, the real you, as you are.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Real, People

  Speech at Wellesley College, time.com. 2015.

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• In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Lying, Humanity

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Reading, People, Noir

  "GeekDad Interviews Fantasy Author Joe Abercrombie". GeekDad Interview, www.wired.com. July 24, 2009.

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• As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Book, Adventure

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• Theres a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isnt always pretty.

  Bob Menendez

  Journey, Differences, Ends

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• Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Ice, Orange

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• For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass
  Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist
  The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.

  Allen Tate

  Glasses, Church, Saint

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.28, Macmillan

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• the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Sailor, Knots

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.

  Anya Seton

  Mother, Reading, Cynical

  Anya Seton (2013). “Green Darkness”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can’t understand and your brain has to adapt... We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it’s how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man.

  Larry Fessenden

  Fate, Thinking, Men

  "Interview with 'Beneath' director Larry Fessenden". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 25, 2014.

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• I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Character, Opportunity, Thinking

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.82, Bantam

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• War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

  David Burnett

  War, Media, Tv Shows

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• The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or exaggerated - to try to get some of this is important... The photofix inflects the almost literal shaping of a figure, changes of movement or potential movement, and a sense of occurrence or event.

  Leon Golub

  Important, Trying, Events

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• I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things to the point of almost absurdity. I don't want to celebrate absurdity, but I do mean to challenge a lot of premises.

  Douglas Huebler

  Mean, Challenges, Want

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• I asked for a glass of Chardonnay. And in a 9/11-like twist, they didn't have any. They offered me Pinot.

  Amy Schumer

  Glasses, Chardonnay

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• People discuss their relationships all the time, but you can't. I don't think people realize how harmful that is, how it twists you up to hide who you are. It's not healthy, and the great gains that homosexuals have made in my lifetime, I think that we'll look back in twenty or thirty years and say, "I can't believe we ever made them go through that."

  David Sedaris

  Believe, Thinking, Years

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• That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Stories, Shapes

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 17, 2013

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