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To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life. -- Steven Wright
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. -- Julia Child
I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time. -- Antony Garrett Lisi
I have no problem twisting the facts if it's the only way I can be true to the moment. -- Francis Alys
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. -- John Lennon
I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there. -- Sandra Bullock
Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot. -- John Updike
I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track. -- Valentino Garavani
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool. -- Kip Thorne
I stayed really physical during my pregnancy. I stuck to my normal pre-pregnancy workout, minus the stomach exercises and twisting. I really felt it helped my whole well-being. -- Keri Russell
I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways. -- Gary Larson
I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love. -- Caroline Shaw
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it. -- Christian Slater
Hair is an issue for most women, and after washing, blow-drying, flat-ironing, curling, braiding, twisting and spending the time and money on it, who wants to mess it up by sweating and having to do it all over again? -- Nicole Ari Parker
In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to reality and I realize, 'Hey, I just ripped that boy's helmet off,' or, 'I'm over here twisting this guy's knee. -- Brian Bosworth
In regards to core training, I try to incorporate the medicine ball whenever possible. As a baseball player, there is a lot of twisting and turning that I will do. Keeping my abs strong is as important as anything else. -- Albert Pujols
In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart. -- Peter Baynham
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love. -- Robert Frank
I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light. -- Ang Lee
For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power. -- Al Gore
I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, and wearing running shoes all the time, and eating exactly the same food every day. I'd remember my friends' birthdays, I'd learn Photoshop, I wouldn't let my daughter watch TV during breakfast. I'd read Shakespeare. -- Gretchen Rubin
A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth. -- Dennis Adonis
Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality. -- Louise Penny
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically. -- Adam Beyer
There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn. -- Elton John
...smoke twisting amongst the lights and turning the air a desolate blue, the colour of dead hopes and lost chances. -- Terry Pratchett
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? -- Yann Martel
My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours? -- Neal Shusterman
Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it? -- Sarah Waters
I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar. -- Erin Morgenstern
I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue. -- Theognis of Megara
Being alone in the dark - surrounded by silence, frightful. Thoughts breathe a life of their own; twisting and turning on each other as enemies unto themselves. -- Veronica Purcell
When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create. -- Mark Cuban
It's very important to stretch, because while it's good to look pumped, a lot of the moves are split legs, and twisting fast. So you really, really have to stay supple. -- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
He took both of my hands, twisting to face me more fully on the flattened box beneath us, and again the colors in his irises seemed to pulse with my heartbeat. -- Rachel Vincent
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map. -- Peter Kreeft
The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly. -- Pete Earley
Ursan flourished the knife, threatening me. "Talk, or I'll start cutting off body parts." "Yours? Or mine?" I kept my voice steady despite my insides twisting into goo. "It's an important distinction. -- Maria V. Snyder
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. -- George Orwell
History, rather than following a predictable path from the past to the present, is like a meander: a twisting and turning stream shaped over time by a combination of obvious and imperceptible forces. -- W. Bruce Fye
The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values, and slowing their development of critical thinking skills. -- Tom Flynn
One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart. -- Lauren Oliver
After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic. -- David Boudia
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." -- Walter Karp
I once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger kill a man in a movie by grabbing his head and twisting it until the neck broke. Was that difficult? Could a man do it without a lot of practice? -- David Wong
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it -- Christian Slater

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