Twisted Quotes

Love doesn't hurt you. A person that doesn't know how to love hurts you. Don't get it twisted.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.

It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.

The best secrets are the most twisted

Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality.

A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .

“Time-out,” I said... He twisted his hand around and wound his fingers into mine. “You‘re putting me in time-out?” “Yes,” I said as a shaky sigh slid through my lips. “If I don't go, do I get a spanking?”

Not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker).

He was a bit like a corkscrew. Twisted, cold and sharp.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?

Reality itself is too twisted.

Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

I'm totally twisted. Instead of, "Oh god, I don't have platforms - they won't like me," I was much more, "I'm doing what I'm doing, and if you don't want to buy it, then don't buy, but that's just what I'm gonna do." It gave me strength. It worked for me.

Americans are fascinated by our sexuality and frightened by it. And during the Reagan and Bush era you got an entire decade of anti-sex government. Sex is not the enemy. It is the beginning of civilization, family and tribe. Sex can be twisted and exploited, but in its most essential form, it's the best part of who we are. And it frightens us.

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.

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.

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

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.

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

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

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

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

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

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

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

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

There was a hole inside her, and it twisted.

My imagination is a twisted place.

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.

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.

People are more twisted than people think.

Toby twisted around. "Boo." Emily screamed.

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

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

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.