Twists Quotes - Page 3

• I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

  John Perkins

  Fate, Exercise, Choices

  John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi takes off his shirt while he's playing the saxophone. Whoever's not chatting up a Cadet or a girl from Darling House or playing chess with the guys is watching the band. I turn into a groupie.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, House, Guy

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• She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and novas of colour both gorgeous and frightening. If I stayed she would wake up and describe them to me. All the mad plot twists and surrealist imagery, so vivid to her while so meaningless to me. There was a time when I treasured listening to her, when I found the commotion in her soul bitter-sweet and lovely, but I can no longer bear it.

  Isaac Marion

  Love, Dream, Sweet

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A foolish jewelled bride. Her silk sunset-coloured sari shot with gold. Rings on every finger. White dots of sandalwood paste over her arched eye-brows. Looking at herself like this, Ammu's soft mouth would twist into a small, bitter smile at the memory - not of the wedding itself so much as the fact that she had permitted herself to be so painstakingly decorated before being led to the gallows. It seemed so absurd. So futile. Like polishing firewood.

  Arundhati Roy

  Memories, Sunset, Eye

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.43, Penguin Books India

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• I think that the project of being alive is to be alive. So there will always be twists and turns and steps forward and steps back, but that's just your life. There is no sort of place at which to arrive, and I think that the more one focuses on an end point, the harder it is to get there. It's like the horizon, sort of ever receding, ever receding, ever receding.

  Ayana Mathis

  Thinking, Horizon, Alive

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Hurt, Your Best Friend, Knobs

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• I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Yield, Wicked, Experts

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• My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

  Sally Phillips

  Crush, Firsts, Reeds

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• I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I didn't have no buddies that I grew up with...Every time I had to go to a new apartment, I had to reinvent myself, myself. People think just because you born in the ghetto you gonna fit in. A little twist in your life and you don't fit in no matter what. If they push you out of the hood and the White people's world, that's criminal...Hell, I felt like my could be destroyed at any moment.

  Tupac Shakur

  Growing Up, Ghetto, Thinking

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• There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.

  Raph Koster

  Fun, Sharks, Play

  Raph Koster (2013). “Theory of Fun for Game Design”, p.96, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• 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

  Dance, Book, Writing

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Chubby Checker lost pounds by demonstrating how to move as if you were 'drying your back with a towel' − the substitution of the word 'back' for 'bottom' indicates the oddly wholesome image of the Twist.

  Jan Murray

  Dance, Moving, Towels

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• And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

  John Updike

  Happiness, Children, Educational

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.55, Random House

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• Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a doubt that the whole purpose of your life so far-every choice you made, every twist of fate along the way-was just a journey to get you to that person. My life started when I met Clea. Every minute without her is just killing time until we can be together again.

  Hilary Duff

  Meaningful, Fate, Journey

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• Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea.

  T. S. Eliot

  Drinking, Hands, Tea

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.

  Anthony Marra

  Soul, Misery, Mines

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• Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Soul, Lows, Conception

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• You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.

  Michael Levy, Baron Levy

  Change, Abuse, Misuse

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• People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.

  Julianna Baggott

  Heart, Differences, People

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• If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.

  Brian Greene

  Law, Labyrinth, Cosmos

  Brian Greene (2011). “The Elegant Universe”, p.18, Random House

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• 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

  World, Classic, Paint

  "'Wither' Author Lauren Destefano On Why Dystopian Fiction Is Fun", www.mtv.com. May 5, 2011.

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• An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.

  Albert Einstein

  Circles, Curls, Lines

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• We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

  Anthony Marra

  Soul, Misery

  Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.307, Random House

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• Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

  Michael Koryta

  Crime Novels, Giving, Looks

  "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.

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• Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental realism I'd expect out of a George R. R. Martin project.

  Austin Grossman

  Book, Character, Plot

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