Distorted Quotes

#1. We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.

Sasha Grey

#2. Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

James L. Brooks

#3. Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#4. But who knows? It was war time. Your values get distorted.

Craig Siegel

#5. Then, in a whisper, Sam said, "I met someone else."

Just like that, Darcy's world melted and distorted into something she no longer recognized. His words hung like poison in the air, and she held her breath, afraid to breathe it in.

D.A. Rhine

#6. I held up my glass and stared through it, where things looked as distorted as they really were.

Kami Garcia

#7. Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

Hannah Hurnard

#8. A theologian's epistemology controls his interpretation of the Bible. If his epistemology is not Christian, his exegesis will be systematically distorted. If he has no epistemology at all, his exegesis will be unsystematically distorted.

Gordon H. Clark

#9. History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#10. In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

Alan Dershowitz

#11. She began to study with a teacher of teachers, whom they brought for that purpose from the city of Mompox, and who died unexpectedly two weeks later, and she continued for several years with the best musician at the seminary, whose gravedigger's breath distorted her arpeggios.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television.

Rush Limbaugh

#13. A distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

Arno Gruen

#14. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

Richard Dawkins

#15. I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands have a character about them. The Stone Roses and The Smiths and all that. Even if you don't like them, they have a certain original sound.

Steve Diggle

#16. A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence

Sunday Adelaja

#17. At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

Howard Dean

#18. Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.

Steven J. Lawson

#19. The Icesave matter is complex and it is understandable that the issue has been oversimplified by many. Unfortunately some of the basic facts of the matter have been unilaterally interpreted, and sometimes distorted, giving rise to unjustified criticism of the conduct of the Icelandic authorities.

Johanna Siguroardottir

#20. Sometimes our identities get distorted because people lie about us and scare us, and sometimes our identities get distorted because of things we've actually done. The result is the same, though. Isolation.

Donald Miller

#21. Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Christopher Lasch

#22. Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.

Mason Cooley

#23. The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

Mark Crispin Miller

#24. There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.

Dora Russell

#25. Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory ...

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#26. Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

E. O. Wilson

#27. If American opinion has been uninformed, misinformed and prejudiced, the missionaries are largely to blame. Interpreting history in terms of the advance of Christianity, they have given an inadequate, distorted, and occasionally a grotesque picture of Moslems and Islam.

Noam Chomsky

#28. Speak with your words and your message can be distorted ... Speak with your actions and you'll leave no doubt.

Steve Maraboli

#29. As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one of us is left with a false history, a self-created fiction about the live we have led. pg 163

Michelle Richmond

#30. This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

Donna Leon

#31. There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light.

Lauren Kate

#32. There was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

Ethel M. Dell

#33. You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?

John Steinbeck

#34. The pope was lying fully stretched out on the floor, his body half-obscured by Cardinal Villot, who was leaning over him. Calvi's heart jumped into his throat. The pontiff 's eyes were shut, his face distorted in pain. He wasn't breathing. He was life-less, drained of color.

Peter J. Tanous

#35. Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?

Elvis Costello

#36. with a face like a fish pressed to glass; eyes so large they appear distorted. "Is

Lauren Oliver

#37. Fear made her seem ill; it distorted her body lines, made her appear as if someone had broken her, and then, with malice, patched her together badly.

Philip K. Dick

#38. Reflection enables us to step back, to see our perspective on a situation as perhaps distorted or blind, at the very least to see if there is argument for preferring our ways, or whether it is just subjective.

Simon Blackburn

#39. My town had grown and changed and my friend along with it. Now returning, as changed to my friend as my town was to me, I distorted his picture, muddied his memory. When I went away I had died, and so became fixed and unchangeable. My return caused only confusion and uneasiness.

John Steinbeck

#40. Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer.

Larry Siedentop

#41. I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.

Filipp Golikov

#42. History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.

Michael P. Naughton

#43. I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

Catherynne M Valente

#44. We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#45. You cannot deny, my dear friend, that there are in existence creatures who are neither man nor beast, but strange unearthly creations, born of the nefarious passions that arise in distorted minds.

Hanns Heinz Ewers

#46. As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.

Ruth Beebe Hill

#47. I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

#48. If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance,

Thomas A Kempis

#49. What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

Ayn Rand

#50. Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish ... It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

Hermann Hesse

#51. Not even on the most distorted and contracted theory of good which ever was framed by religious or philosophical fanaticism, can the government of Nature be made to resemble the work of a being at once good and omnipotent.

John Stuart Mill

#52. Work done by non-Christians always contain some degree of God's common grace as well as the distortions of sin. Work done by Christians, even if it overtly names the name of Jesus is also to a significant degree distorted by sin.

Timothy Keller

#53. And that's how we lost our ways, because more than modernism we like to love its distorted appearance.

M.H. Rakib

#54. It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

Bill Vaughan

#55. Sorry, listeners. I need to go make sure she's all right. I take you now to the sound of a human stomach digesting, heavily amplified and electronically distorted.

Joseph Fink

#56. I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves.

David Chang

#57. I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Garry Kasparov

#58. He loved Jaime. He loved him so much sometimes he thought he must certainly be losing his mind. It was hard to believe his heart could go on beating minute after minute, day after day, when it felt so distorted and huge and fragile.

Marie Sexton

#59. Sextants that divided the sky into angles not found in the usual geometries, microscopes whose hermetically sealed lenses distorted the viewed object into shimmering rainbow images, other instruments whose complexity and manifold adjustments quite overwhelmed my powers of speculation as to their use

K.W. Jeter

#60. Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

Haruki Murakami

#61. How come every one of these so-called photos of Bigfoot are blurred or distorted? Don't any of these Bigfoot aficionados have a decent camera?

G. Kent

#62. We are the Rainbow Generation,
the Light split into color due to the physicality of observation;
the One harmonious sound being distorted through differing notes...

Grace Gabriella Puskas

#63. A turtle swims in the background while this shark's face is distorted by the diver's camera lens.

James Mayrose

#64. I've realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not appreciated in the film industry. Instead, it is twisted and distorted. A lot of what I say is lost in translation.

Sonam Kapoor

#65. With distrust came suspicion and with suspicion came fear, and with fear came hate--and these, in already distorted minds, inflamed a hell.

Zane Grey

#66. Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

Kristin Hersh

#67. If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.

Evan Osnos

#68. What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

Bob Kane

#69. But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

Lori Foster

#70. Once we refuse to honor God as God, our whole view of life and the world becomes distorted.

R.C. Sproul

#71. The fact is, I find it extremely difficult to force myself to read old letters ... Whenever one really knows the facts, one finds that what is accepted by contemporaries or posterity as the truth about them is so distorted or out of focus that it is not worth worrying about.

Leonard Woolf

#72. For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#73. We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It's absurd. We run the risk of warping what's best in us

Andre Gide

#74. Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea concerning some old and distorted connection between us?

Audre Lorde

#75. During the interim, no matter how much agony the man may feel, he also experiences excitement, the excitement of learning how to cope with a closed society that reflects free society as a funhouse mirror reflects the human form: everything is there, but distorted.

Edward Bunker

#76. It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achieve.

David Ayer

#77. For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.

Barton Gellman

#78. It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.

Joe Perry

#79. Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.

Duop Chak Wuol

#80. There are many things that have distorted the person inside you from what you were created to be

Sunday Adelaja

#81. It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

John Bradshaw

#82. People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

Nikki Sixx

#83. Nobody gets a good view of a system from the inside, no matter who they are. The view's distorted.

Peter Watts

#84. So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it.

Eckhart Tolle

#85. The painting you saw in your mind was beautiful when it was your secret. Once it's on the canvas it's as if someone else has got hold of your secret and sullied it, distorted it.

Glenn Haybittle

#86. It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

Amy Tan

#87. I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

Jeanette Winterson

#88. I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#89. There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

William H. Hunt

#90. Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive within and behind her many garments, that which is timeless and entirely beautiful.

Lawren Harris

#91. I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

Mary Griffith

#92. There was no time to weigh chances. There was no such thing as chances anyway, in the distorted perspective of the weed fumes.

Cornell Woolrich

#93. People with boundary problems usually have distorted attitudes about responsibility. They feel that to hold people responsible for their feelings, choices, and behaviors is mean. However, Proverbs repeatedly says that setting limits and accepting responsibility will save lives (Prov. 13:18, 24).

Henry Cloud

#94. Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

Lois Lowry

#95. As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good - I use it because I have to, but I don't put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

Marcel Duchamp

#96. Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.

Gough Whitlam

#97. People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures ... There's nothing incredible about it.

Joe Orton

#98. I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception of Islam and Muslims. When a minority is being taken as a majority, it creates a wrong image.

Tariq Ramadan

#99. I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.

Brad Carson

#100. All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact.

Paula Scher