Quotes About Twisting People's Words

#1. I don't really like the way that journalism works in the UK anyway; it's all about getting the most shocking thing out of somebody and kind of twisting people's words, which isn't really journalism, as far as I'm concerned.

Lily Allen

#2. He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Oscar Wilde

#3. No matter how much deposit you have got, if it is not been filled back and is only being spent, you guess what would happen, you will soon deplete it.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Aye, and for now, would you mind if I get you out of your clothes and wrap myself around you? It's medicinal you know? For your stitches...and my knee...and, I guess, all the rest of us.

Marquesate

#5. Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

David Frum

#6. Wise Bear said something in his own language, mouth twisting in disgust as if the words stained his tongue. He caught Vaelin's enquiring gaze and provided a terse translation, "Cat People.

Anthony Ryan

#7. When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

Douglas Coupland

#8. From the driver's standpoint I had the same horrors, the same satisfactions, the same everything. The speed is relative. It's faster and things are happening quicker, but you have the equipment to handle it.

Mario Andretti

#9. Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

Milan Kundera

#10. Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [ ... ] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your lust for power in persecuting words, twisting them, molding them, torturing them to obey you.

Aldous Huxley

#11. As far as I could tell, the quickest way to a geeky guy's heart usually involved geometric shapes.

Angela N. Blount

#12. I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that when you do not see me any more you will know that my enemy has finally triumphed.

Anna Kavan

#13. I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

Charlie Kaufman

#14. I rarely interacted much with anyone back then who wasn't retarded. When I did, it struck me how pompous and impatient they were, always measuring their words, twisting things around. Everybody was so obsessed with being understood. It made me sick.

Ottessa Moshfegh