Twists Quotes - Page 19

• What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Courage, Motivation

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2014

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• Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.

  Portia de Rossi

  Fear, Thinking, Growth

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Mistake, Math

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nice, Snakes, Enchantment

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• 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

  Liars, People, Tragedy

  Nina Bawden (2011). “In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Meals, Breakfast, Pancakes

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• I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.

  Gore Verbinski

  Kids, Play, Language

  "Interview With Rango Director Gore Verbinski". Interview with Cindy White, www.ign.com. July 15, 2011.

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• The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

  Julie Burchill

  Party, Pampering, Groups

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• Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, People, Risk

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• Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

  Colum McCann

  Heart, Simple, Long Ago

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

  Alan Moore

  Hate, Two, People

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• The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotic, Hands, Constitution Of The United States

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.325

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• I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• The twist makes it a no-floater summer!

  Julie Chen

  Summer

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2013

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• For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.

  Stephen King

  Loss, Dark, Gun

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.791, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Play, Perception, Lasts

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• People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan

  Paul Washer

  People, Judging, Scripture

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• Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

  Rick Riordan

  Love, Thinking, Brain

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• We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.

  Taylor Swift

  Fun, People, Live Your Life

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