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Oliver Twist has asked for more! -- Charles Dickens
Twist my Body like the Exorcist... -- Foxy Brown
The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips -- Chubby Checker
[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate". -- Bob Dylan
I'm definitely partial to the "Twin Twist." I've always found that to be really fun. -- Allison Grodner
My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film. -- Sally Phillips
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light. -- Chubby Checker
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light. -- Chubby Checker
I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout". -- Steve Diggle
As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety. -- Marshall Fishwick
Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers. -- Anthony Horowitz
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback. -- William Golding
And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. -- Dick Gregory
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice. -- Melina Marchetta
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions. -- Henning Mankell
For me 'Oliver Twist' is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions. -- Henning Mankell
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him. -- Charles Dickens
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. -- Samuel Fuller
In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better. -- Michael Leunig
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I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale. -- Calvin Trillin
I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense. -- John Gay
Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book. -- Henning Mankell
I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different. -- Chubby Checker
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. -- Eldridge Cleaver
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. -- Eldridge Cleaver
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on. -- Mark Gatiss
I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty. -- Brittany Snow
Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style. -- Alice Temperley
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess. -- Maya Angelou
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. -- Donald Trump
I don't want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle. -- Rickie Fowler
I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise. -- Richard Simmons
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen. -- Lauren DeStefano
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people. -- Nina Bawden
I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there. -- Carmelo Anthony
Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried. -- Hugh Jackman
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. -- Thomas Merton
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it. -- Lana Wachowski
I'm boyish with a feminine twist. I definitely gravitate toward oversized things like shirts and jackets. I like a good trouser, but then I might mix it up with something more feminine, like a pointy boot or pumps. -- Jacquelyn Jablonski
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point. -- Philip Johnson
One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live. -- Tommy Hilfiger
We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story. -- Timothy Noah
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules. -- Vera Wang
I often eat Skippy's Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I don't shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open. -- Willie Geist
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. -- Max Eastman
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well. -- Jeff Greenfield
My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist. -- Jamie Cullum
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world. -- Anne Frank
And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different. -- Harlan Coben
It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things. -- Lionel Messi
I was in Christian broadcasting back in the 1970s. I was director of communications for James Robinson, and I really thought Christian broadcasting was going to be my career. There have been so many twist and turns in my life; of course I haven't been a pastor for almost 22 years, but it was a very important part of my life. -- Mike Huckabee
The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.' -- Mark Bradford
I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly. -- Salman Khan
Spiral minds are harder to twist. -- Kris Saknussemm
You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm. -- David Dinkins
Everything is nothing, with a twist. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The twist makes it a no-floater summer! -- Julie Chen
Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga? -- Rick Riordan
But there's a twist. There's always a twist. -- Dan Slott
We twist our souls around each otherâ??s miseries. -- Anthony Marra
You don't have to twist my arm to work. -- Henry Rollins
The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist. -- Robert Stawell Ball
Now Leroux, what think youOf this twist to the story? -- E.A. Bucchianeri
What I really like to do is just do the twist! -- Van Morrison
There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist. -- Charlie Brooker
Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause -- Julie Burchill
When it comes to dating, Im straightforward and traditional with a twist. -- Luke Pasqualino
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending. -- Bill Paxton
Oh yeah, just push the knife in further and twist, why doncha?! -- Aya Nakahara
I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist. -- Laurieann Gibson
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine. -- E. L. James
If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. -- Dean Koontz
Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. -- Stephen Richards
Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style. -- Alice Temperley
I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it. -- Howard Dean
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. -- Laurence Leamer
I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me." -- Ozzy Osbourne
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument. -- Winston Churchill
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. -- Katharine Kerr
Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect. -- Maud Hart Lovelace
I can't escape reality but my mind can twist it for me. Therefore, mind can manipulate things. -- Aser Alas Jr.
I'm always surprised to see the way "friends" will twist things or trash people behind their backs. -- Ariana Madix
Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around. -- Joe Perry
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. -- Joey Skaggs
No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose -- Mahatma Gandhi
Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind. -- John Ehrlichman
It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt. -- Melissa de la Cruz
How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up. -- Nick Nolte
I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, "Seriously, another plot twist? -- Meghan Blistinsky
The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt. -- Jarod Kintz
I like classics but I always add a twist because I don't like to think of my clothes as classic. -- Monique Lhuillier
The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa. -- Julie Burchill
perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.my world just hasn't discovered the twist. -- Elizabeth Kay
Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind. -- Marge Piercy
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson. -- Tom Shales
I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside. -- Cheryl Rainfield
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
Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong. -- Rick Riordan
I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist. -- Elvis Costello
You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth. -- Michael Levy, Baron Levy
People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan -- Paul Washer
Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up. -- Kaskade
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. -- Carson McCullers
You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family. -- Anthony Marra
I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise. -- Sean Sasser
Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.' -- Kristina McMorris
Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in. -- Ben Mendelsohn
She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist. -- Amy Efaw
I'm gonna draw a picture. a picture with a twist... I'll draw it with a razor blade. I'll draw it on my wrist... -- Kat Calhoun
My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450. -- Bruce Sterling
I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds. -- Vera Farmiga
It is hard sometimes to look into the future, you never know what twist and turn the school of life is going to take. -- Susan Lucci
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to! -- Humbert Wolfe
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer is not trying to twist Godâ??s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done! -- Andrew Wommack
In my opinion, what 'The Evil Dead' is to horror, 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' is to action-fantasy, with these horror elements and a steampunk-y twist. -- Derek Mears

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