1.
Love doesn't hurt you. A person that doesn't know how to love hurts you. Don't get it twisted.
Tony Gaskins
2.
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.
Richard M. Nixon
3.
Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.
Harriet Monroe
5.
But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
Banana Yoshimoto
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Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
Bruce Lee
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A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.
Salman Rushdie
9.
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?
Stephanie Perkins
10.
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.
Mercedes Lackey
11.
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.
James W. Hall
12.
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.
Jean Giraud
13.
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.
Lisa Gardner
14.
A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.
Alexandra Ivy
15.
The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .
Alice Childress
16.
“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?”
Darynda Jones
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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).
Antonin Artaud
19.
I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
John Cusack
20.
My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?
Neal Shusterman
21.
Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
Patti Smith
22.
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.
Manolo Blahnik
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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.
Hugh Hefner
25.
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.
Lee Whitnum
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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.
Vernor Vinge
28.
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.
William H. Gass
29.
When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
Charles R. Swindoll
31.
Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
Ursula K. Le Guin
32.
Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.
Gail Z. Martin
33.
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.
Anthony Shadid
34.
How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?
Janeane Garofalo
35.
Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted.
Tamzin Outhwaite
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In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.
Abbi Glines
38.
Most novelists write about twisted lives.
Tom Robbins
40.
And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.
Brom
41.
I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.
Weyes Blood
42.
Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.
Rick Riordan
43.
Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.
Greg Saunier
44.
The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.
Tony Curtis
45.
Perception is created and twisted so quickly.
Louis C. K.
46.
If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.
David Walton
49.
Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.
Nalini Singh
50.
You sick, twisted monster," Sabrina seethed at Pinocchio.
Michael Buckley