Torqued Up Quotes

#1. The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

Josh Billings

#2. SOMETIMES A plan is just a list of things that don't happen. Ruben

Damon Suede

#3. Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.

Marcus Aurelius

#4. The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

P.D. James

#5. If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.

William Atherton

#6. Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. Ennis was back on his feet and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then bent again to its original shape, they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what they'd said was no news. Nothing ended, nothing began, nothing resolved.

Annie Proulx

#8. There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

Anish Kapoor

#9. On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

Fidel Castro

#10. Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.

William Henry Drummond

#11. in some half-forgotten pesthole of twentieth-century case studies - filed under Cotard's syndrome - I found Amanda Bates and others of her kind, their brains torqued into denial of the very self.

Peter Watts

#12. You have to write badly in order to write well.

William Faulkner

#13. If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be.

J. L. Mackie

#14. The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.

Stacey Levine