Twisting My Words Quotes

#1. You're twisting my words."
"I think you are doing a fine job of twisting them yourself.

Julia Quinn

#2. Tongue and expression plays a big role in twisting the words and make the life hell.

Kishore Bansal

#3. When mind is so easy, body becomes so tranquil and so fearless.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

Walter Kirn

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. From the Latin, con clavis: 'with a key'.

Robert Harris

#8. Afraid of the tangle of words twisting around my own tongue, I swallow and place my hand against the thick wood of the Barrier.

Carrie Ryan

#9. We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

George Thorogood

#10. Merry's mind devolved into chaos. Ideas evaded her. Words chased one another into meaningless jumbles. Her breath came in shallow gasps as the ghastly image of William's lifeless body twisting in the wind, solidified and held.

Susan Catalano

#11. Sometimes I wonder if we're livin' in the same land.
Why do you wanna be my friend
when I feel like a juggler
running out of hands?

Elvis Costello

#12. The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.

Deb Caletti

#13. When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

Buzz Aldrin

#14. Freedom is in gratification not in ownership

Rajesh Walecha

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. If you read one book you are a clone. If you read two books you are confused. If you read ten books you have your own voice. And if you read one hundred books you are wise. (paraphrase)

Timothy Keller

#18. After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

Tori Amos

#19. It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.

Brother Lawrence

#20. The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing

Gail Collins

#21. There is this incredible, indelible community that has sprung up around the show, a community that gathers in homes and clubs, from Los Angeles to Topeka, Kansas and around the world. A community that, in some places, meets quietly in a lesbian bar that doesn't even exist depending on whom you ask.

Jennifer Beals

#22. His words started to wedge their way into me, and they would stay for a long time; twisting me up, and causing me to look at life in a whole new way.

Stacie Hammond

#23. There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

Alexander Siddig

#24. The thirst for vengeance did not wait for Islam to appear in the world, and the appeal to the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is universal.

Tzvetan Todorov

#25. Diane suddenly felt like the words she was saying were twisting in her mouth and coming out as different words altogether.

Joseph Fink