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I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan's use of my song 'We're Not Gonna Take It' as recorded by my band Twisted Sister. There is almost nothing on which I agree with Paul Ryan, except perhaps the use of the P90X. -- Dee Snider
We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning. -- Haruki Murakami
No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet. -- Philip Yancey
Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone. -- Daphne du Maurier
Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment. -- Jacque Fresco
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love. -- Leonard Cohen
I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile. -- Abbey Lee Kershaw
The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside. -- Cassandra Clare
Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When I thought you were normal you turned out to be abnormal. -- Jae Hee
When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror. -- Lou Reed
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road. -- Margaret Atwood
Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and balanced, diseased and whole, partial and complete, stingy and generous, twisted and straight, storm-tossed and quiescent, bound and free. -- Paula Gunn Allen
Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud. -- Romain Gary
Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct. -- Haruki Murakami
I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful. But there's something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn't have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it's just to make this thing as beautiful as they can. -- Elliott Smith
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Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time. -- Dee Snider
Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic. -- Peaches Geldof
Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head. -- Orson Scott Card
What started it all was the Kanye album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.' We started listening to that and just fell in love with it, fell in love with his production style. -- Andrew Dost
The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight. -- Mervyn Peake
Perception is created and twisted so quickly. -- Louis C. K.
I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted. -- Ryan Murphy
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. -- Damien Hirst
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
I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated. -- Russell Crowe
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. -- Maya Angelou
A lot of people fall in love because you're sharing your body with someone. And sometimes you get it twisted, and you think that that's real love. -- Jessica White
I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center. -- Lisa Unger
You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you've got a lot of inaccuracies out there. -- Steven Seagal
I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in. -- Naomi Watts
I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates. -- Mac DeMarco
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character. -- Eddie Izzard
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
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are. -- Naomie Harris
The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern. -- Octavio Paz
I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me. -- Bruno Mars
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. -- Robert Fortune
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work. -- Junot Diaz
We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's wrong with their heads, something's just not right.' Well yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else. -- Mark Zupan
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. -- Martin McDonagh
Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've twisted it and pulled at it and dug in and found a way to complete it. To get another one is the trick. -- Jakob Dylan
Twisted' is similar to 'Pretty Little Liars' in that it's about trying to find out who did it, but it's more about the human relationships between characters and the strain that things can put on them. It's also a little bit of a social commentary piece, because it covers very timely issues. -- Avan Jogia
My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, and it is the one I am most proud of. Xavi chipped the ball to me, I chested it down, twisted and hit an overhead kick. It was the final goal in a 4-0 win. -- Ronaldinho
When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius! -- Ted Allen
The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas. -- Nick Cave
Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines. -- Gloria Trevi
Hello, you sick twisted freak. -- Glenn Beck
Shoes twisted into incredible lilies. -- William Carlos Williams
Reality itself is too twisted. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Most novelists write about twisted lives. -- Tom Robbins
Toby twisted around. "Boo." Emily screamed. -- Sara Shepard
My imagination is a twisted place. -- Taylor Swift
The best secrets are the most twisted -- Sara Shepard
Fate has a twisted sense of humor. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
People are more twisted than people think. -- Brad Meltzer
Britain's such a twisted, weird little place. -- Graham Norton
I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer. -- Catherine Opie
You sick, twisted monster," Sabrina seethed at Pinocchio. -- Michael Buckley
Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten. -- Natsuo Kirino
Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted. -- Rick Riordan
There was a hole inside her, and it twisted. -- Lilith Saintcrow
Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples. -- Sherwood Anderson
And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not. -- Brom
I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff. -- Drea De Matteo
If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around. -- Kevin Connolly
Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state. -- Ozzy Osbourne
Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted? -- Patti Smith
The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know. -- Tony Curtis
Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure. -- Gail Z. Martin
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine. -- Matsuo Basho
My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff. -- Chelsea Cain
Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories. -- Peter S. Beagle
It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted. -- Tupac Shakur
I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted. -- John Cusack
I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal. -- Lucas Grabeel
Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present. -- Thomas Sowell
This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings. -- George R. R. Martin
I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians. -- Weyes Blood
A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses. -- Alexandra Ivy
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight. -- Salman Rushdie
Like we were connected, the echo of his pain twisted inside inside me. his pain, my pain. -- Stephenie Meyer
A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile"Best in small doses. -- Alexandra Ivy
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Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted. -- Tamzin Outhwaite
The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them. -- Lauren Oliver
Yo, ayo tonight is the night that I'ma get twisted Myx Moscato and vodka, I'ma mix it -- Nicki Minaj
So, what is my story? I don't know. It's long and twisted and not quite finished yet. -- Caitlyn Paige
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves. -- Neal Shusterman
I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment. -- Lee Whitnum
The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up. -- Jonathan Kellerman
The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174) -- Robin R. Meyers
Love doesn't hurt you. A person that doesn't know how to love hurts you. Don't get it twisted. -- Tony Gaskins
Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial. -- Harriet Monroe
Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted. -- E. Jean Carroll
Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.' -- Mark Billingham
I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it. -- Raf Simons
I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil. -- Cassandra Clare
I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle. -- Etheridge Knight
I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look. -- Christopher Walken
Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do. -- Rick Riordan
An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest. -- Ming-Dao Deng
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't. -- Anthony Shadid
In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy. -- Gayle Forman
Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted. -- Bruce Lee
This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart. -- Franz Kafka
She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment. -- Deborah Harkness
My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours? -- Neal Shusterman
She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines. -- Nenia Campbell
That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right. -- David Levithan
No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it. -- Nora Roberts
So can you tell me exactly what 'freedom' means? If I am not free to be as twisted as I wanna be? -- Disturbed
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
In what twisted universe would a girl who's just been dumped still want to be friends with the boy who dumped her? -- Susane Colasanti
I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more. -- Mary Borden
The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe. -- Charles Williams

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