Twisted Quotes - Page 2

I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

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

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

My imagination is a twisted place.

Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted.

Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.

Toby twisted around. "Boo." Emily screamed.

Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.

Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.

You sick, twisted monster," Sabrina seethed at Pinocchio.

There was a hole inside her, and it twisted.

How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?

Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.

Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.