Twists Quotes - Page 5

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips

I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

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.

Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh, I've never had a whole leg to myself before.” The disbelief of the chronically hungry.

Regardless of what ideological twist people may have, about 90 to 95 percent of our population [in Puerto Rico] really values our citizenship. It's of utmost importance.

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

There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist.

I think that the project of being alive is to be alive. So there will always be twists and turns and steps forward and steps back, but that's just your life. There is no sort of place at which to arrive, and I think that the more one focuses on an end point, the harder it is to get there. It's like the horizon, sort of ever receding, ever receding, ever receding.

We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

What I really like to do is just do the twist!

From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.

By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

It is hard sometimes to look into the future, you never know what twist and turn the school of life is going to take.

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

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.

The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.

Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much.

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot.