Distorted Quotations

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.

The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.

If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally distorted in my view of myself. I'll lose myself in all that.

Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.

I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

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.

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

The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

One example of this is the unbridled attacks by some of the media on the majority ruling of Cohen's disciplinary court. The criticism included inferences that ties of friendship between one of the judges and the judge's attorney shaped the outcome of the hearing; that the judges ought to admit their error in public; and that the ruling was ridiculous, distorted and revolting. This isn't criticism. This is attacking for its own sake,

Per capita measures of income are always a little bit distorted when you talk about places like Utah or Idaho, mainly because we have substantially more children per adult. We have in Utah 50 percent more children per adult than the national average, so any per capita or per-person measure of income, we'll always be on the low side.

Megahertz has been distorted as a proxy for performance and has been devalued in terms of a measure of performance.

severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this -- that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that aren't real and believe things that aren't real, and act in that distorted reality.

I was into grunge, the heavy, distorted guitars, bands like Nirvana. Although, we weren't that good. But I wore the flannels, the long underwear, the whole deal.

Four justices of the Florida State Supreme Court have distorted the judicial process into nothing more than a mechanism for providing Mr. Gore with the victory he was unable to win November 7. This ruling not only contradicts, but assaults, the most basic principles of jurisprudence,

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.

For too long Tom DeLay has been the subject of a partisan witch hunt by Ronnie Earle and the media that has ultimately led to a distorted public image of assumed guilt.

From the media's perspective, extremes are news, ... completely distorted by the emphasis on what I would call the grotesque or extreme cases.

But these processes have been distorted by the prime minister. So in the end, we have an elected politician who can remain above the law with no mechanism to deal with it -- no accountability, no responsibility. That to me is not democracy.

Having attended the World Trade Organization's Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, we must make sure the many trade agreements now being actively negotiated by our government do not put U.S. sugar farmers at a disadvantage in the global marketplace. The world sugar market is the most distorted commodity market in the world, caused by the dumping of surplus sugar from countries that don't want to play by the same rules as U.S. farmers.

He was desperate to control the voices, ... He had the sudden distorted perception that if he dropped bags of cement or shot at cars, it would attenuate the voices.

He's by Distorted Humor, and we always want to support our own stallions.

It is interesting to note that all of the inaccuracies accrued in favor of the developer and presented a distorted picture of the site. It is our belief that a full investigation will bring other errors to light that will reflect unfavorably on the capability and/or integrity of Troy Burrell and Burrell Engineering.

I think it's fair to say it'll be the least important or most distorted jobs report in memory. Maybe both.

The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.

We are going to try to seek monetary damages and try to get to the bottom of the unlawful leaks that we think have unfairly distorted Dr. Lee's situation.

The data are heavily distorted by a large military contract and the surge in vehicle sales. Once these have dissipated, orders and shipments will sag again.

Whenever there is a power cut, the whole shift is distorted and time is lost. Time cannot be reversed.

Did that mean carrying a hand mirrow with me at all times so I could see myself from every angle? No, nothing so drastic or inane. Self-examination is usually a half-hearted, spontaneous thing we do when we're either scared or bored. As a result, whatever conclusions we reach are distorted either by a clumsy urgency or a listless sigh. But in my own case, I simple wanted to be less surprised by what I did after I did it.

Conglomerates and cyclical companies have been on the spot lately and after today's industrial data, they once again became a good buying opportunity. But the trading is volatile and a bit distorted given the options expiration.

Earnings of our conventional TV businesses were negatively impacted in the quarter by the Olympic Winter Games, which distorted normal ratings and advertising revenues in all television markets over a two-week period in February.

The trade figures are distorted by the effects of foreign re-insurance on the World Trade Center. Nevertheless, international trade is contracting.

The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.

The size of this repatriation shows how distorted our current tax regime is,

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.

We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

Despite the pop in core PPI inflation in July, there appears to be little pressure lurking on the horizon in the near term. The pipeline measures remain subdued and vehicle pricing appears to have distorted the figures.

. . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . . that's what I have to go into before all my work is misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon . . .

Industrial production data is helping support some of the largest conglomerates today. But the trading is volatile and a bit distorted given the options expiration.

If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time.

None of it is done with make-up. Dean is aware of his body and very coordinated. He is a handsome man playing a distorted figure.

Sharp Humor is a gorgeous colt with brilliant speed and the ability to carry that speed. He possesses the strong determination that Distorted Humor has been passing along to his progeny.

They completely distorted the process. The development agreement process provides for more public input.

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.

In this election and others, ... Billings has been plagued by the rumor that his credentials ('studying engineering and business at BYU' and being close to graduation) are distorted or even falsified. I challenge the mayor to come clean: Produce a BYU transcript. . . .

In the 16 years I've come here, I have never heard so much uninformed, misleading and distorted testimony on a bill.

Things have been very distorted by how warm the weather was in January. To some extent, we're trying to get a handle on how it impacted the economy. It helped retail spending and housing starts, but has hurt energy prices.

These numbers were highly impacted if not distorted by Hurricane Katrina.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

All too often, the view of Russia does not correspond to reality: information on Russia is either distorted or incomplete or just nonsense.

The current RFID initiative is distorted by the push from the retailers to have a useful system in large volumes in a short time.

The inaugural has sort of become a metaphor for the whole political process and how money has distorted it,

The union's actions today shows that it thinks nothing of using distorted facts and fear tactics to achieve its goal of converting our loyal employees into dues-paying members of its struggling organization. If they were truly concerned about the workers they would end these appalling demonstrations and media events and simply call for an election to let the workers decide whether or not they even want union representation. Why are they so afraid of Democracy?

The market dynamics at the time (that) we were considering those cases distorted the market and resulted in prices that were probably not going to be sustained through the course of this year. Natural gas prices are now down $3 to $4, which will mean real relief for Wisconsin ratepayers. I expect that every Wisconsin utility will come forward to adjust rates. We will work quickly so utility customers experience timely savings.

The market dynamics at the time we were considering those cases distorted the market and resulted in prices that were probably not going to be sustained through the course of this year.

The figures are not proof yet of an economic slowdown as they are being distorted by cutbacks in work creation programs.

The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.

The care and feeding of informants is big business in the U.S. government. It's like the CIA's 'black budget.' Obviously, no one really wants to keep the exact number of informants and amount paid them, because most intelligent people know that the system is being distorted by all the selling of information.

This hugely strong report will doubtless be cited as evidence that the housing market is not slowing. However, the extremely warm January weather surely distorted these data, just as it boosted retail sales and depressed industrial production.

These large gender differences may have previously remained undetected because earlier studies looked either at men and women together or a younger, healthier group of men. If you look at men and women combined, you get a highly distorted picture because they respond so differently.

It's so important for people to see aspects of the United States that are not those that are represented in our popular culture, which is what they see. They have a distorted view of the United States, and it's kind of embarrassing. They think we all have 15 cars and live in big mansions.

We will not be intimidated. The news is not propaganda. It is not something to be manipulated, distorted nor censored. Recent events have only strengthened our resolve to continue giving the public the truth in line with the strict guidelines of our Code of Ethics.

It's becoming more prevalent because of these shows. They're based on reality, but they're distorted by Hollywood for dramatic effect. And it affects jurors. Jurors now have unrealistic expectations when they enter a case. I think they really believe we can get fingerprints off the head of a pin.

It's going to provide a very distorted record of what happened in this hearing. They should release it all and let the chips fall where they may.

The market took the report in context -- which is that it is often distorted by aircraft orders. It didn't really ignite the bond bulls that the headline number was down so much.

The disadvantage is that you have a report that might dribble out, and you don't know what parts will dribble out, and you can get a very distorted view of what the commission actually decided.

In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.