Quotes About Bending The Truth

#1. When it comes to bending the truth to assist a story's plot versus staying completely true to the facts, we can assure you any dramatist will always select the former. Mark Twain's old saying "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story" still reigns in Hollywood.

James Morcan

#2. Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

Steve Harvey

#3. God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted.
George Saunders
The Bookseller

C. Robert Cales

#5. It should not be physically possible to get from the banks of the Pepani River to Wyoming in less than two days, because mentally and emotionally it is impossible.

Alexandra Fuller

#6. A bending staff I would not break,
A feeble faith I would not shake,
Nor even rashly pluck away
The error which some truth may stay,
Whose loss might leave the soul without
A shield against the shafts of doubt.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#7. A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

Aldous Huxley

#8. On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

Bill Budge

#9. Dellwyn: I will teach you everything you need to know to entice your father's murderer into killing his wife to be with you."
Aya: It sounds so disturbing when you say it like that.

Kate M. Colby

#10. The prosperity of the soul is spiritual.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. When I dig back through memory cells, I get one particularly distinctive feeling-and that's one of warmth, comfort and well-being. For whatever else I may have had, or lost, or will find-I've still got a hometown. This, nobody's gonna take away from me.

Rod Serling

#12. Sex is in everything. All our novels, songs, films, all the stuff in the name of entertainment is nothing but marketing of sex in multiple and disguised forms.

Girdhar Joshi

#13. We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

Colin Powell

#14. As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I've always been very pro-African-American - or whatever phrase we now use.

Gore Vidal

#15. Don't just declutter, de-own.

Joshua Becker

#16. Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer.

Debasish Mridha

#17. A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

Marianne Moore

#18. Making love is not just becoming as one, or even two, but becoming as a hundred thousand. Desiring-machines or the nonhuman sex: not one or even two sexes, but n sexes.

Gilles Deleuze

#19. Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.

John Calvin

#20. Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other ... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists ... So, I chose to believe in magic.

Thomm Quackenbush