Twisted Quotations

I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I'm putting a Rubik's Cube with a flimsy piece of rope.

I have some cool talents. I'm really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I'm a big athlete and especially love soccer.

I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.

The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.

I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

I have always loved a hard-faced girl. I get that Alison Goldfrapp isn't easy, and I like her belligerence. She's deeply sexy and controlled, like a Strict Machine, and it seems to wind the b'jesus out of the women I know. On the outside, I watch and smile and will her on like a twisted silent maiden aunt in the dark corner.

There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.

The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild characters are literary ice cream sundaes - extravagant treats that aren't as calorie-laden when we're wearing flip flops.

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

I've realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not appreciated in the film industry. Instead, it is twisted and distorted. A lot of what I say is lost in translation.

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.

My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

I wish I could have given him a bear hug and twisted his arm, but he's a pretty big guy. Obviously, we would love to have him here.

On a cloth untrue / With a twisted cue, / And elliptical billiard balls.

My concept of a 'Doctor Who' girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in unsuitable footwear. Of course you fell over and twisted your ankle, because you had high heels on.

My Lord, I couldn't remember the facts at that time. If you start asking questions on the wrong facts, then I'm worried. It's based on twisted evidence,

When there's an opening, a child's head can get caught in it and the net can get twisted around the child's head,

I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.

He was a friendly kid, he was quiet, not someone you'd think would be twisted up in something like this.

He was in a goal line situation and he just twisted it. It's bad.

I always kind of felt there's like this twisted love relationship between King Kong and Fay Wray and the Empire State Building. We made him famous or he made us famous. I'm not sure.

He twisted it on the last play of practice. I think he's going to be OK.

I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted from its roots. That's when I knew something bad was coming.

My skate got caught and I twisted it. I heard it twist and I couldn't get up. All my body weight fell on it. I had to be really hurt to leave the game. We were still in the game at that point.

Some of our competitors have twisted our metrics in the local marketplace. We don't give those numbers out any more for competitive reasons.

Jewish terror ... aimed against innocent Palestinians, out of twisted thinking, aimed at stopping the disengagement.

Robert Vigil committed no crime. The facts will show . . . what they have done is taken innocent facts and twisted them to fit their theories.

It feels fine. I just twisted it a little bit. We had a good cushion, so it made sense to keep me on the sideline.

It got twisted around. I just said I'd do whatever the team asked me to do. I just want to help the team win.

Yeah, the thing is, when people think '70s, they think disco, but we're not disco, we're like Kiss, Rolling Stones, Twisted Sister.

The ankle was really twisted and we will have to wait one or two days to see how things go.

I was on the ground and all twisted up. They were pulling the ball away from me and all yelling ?fumble, fumble.' But, my butt was already on the ground. I knew that it wasn't a fumble.

When I jumped, I lost my balance, ... I thought someone was behind me and I was securing the catch. I came down and twisted my ankle. It was just one of those plays.

When I landed I twisted the ankle. If there had been two minutes to go and the scores were level I would have called injury time, strapped the ankle and kept playing.

We have really tried over the years to minimize the impact that this property has on the community. No matter, those efforts are insufficient because of this twisted interest some folks have. I want to get rid of it and hurt as few people in the process as I can and just be done with it.

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

People are more twisted than people think.

When the pitcher came back (to first), I twisted it a little bit turning to get back. There's still a little pain and I'm a little sore. But I think I'll get better. I'll be ready for opening day.

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .

Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

We'll see what the next couple of days bring and how sore it is. I just twisted it. My leg was under me and I kind of put my body weight under it and I heard it twist pretty hard.

... not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker)...

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

Duane twisted my arm. And I love him. It was his idea to get married on Valentine?s Day.

Blake twisted his ankle. I don't know bad it is. He's on crutches. They say there's no fracture and that it's an ankle sprain.

Benny Hill's character is this twisted sexual deviant who professes his love for obese women, which I thought was so funny. There was nothing like that in this movie, so I thought it would be fun to play my character as someone who had no social graces, yet was embittered by the fact he was universally refused by women.

These days, the witches are hardly old crones with twisted noses. They've got fishnets and you'd just want to jump in their cauldrons.

It was two big guys going at it real hard on the edge of the mat. Ivan tried to stand his ground at the same time the opponent was pushing. Ivan's ankle just got twisted in a bad way.

You don't know what a fanatic Judy Garland fan or an Oz fanatic is capable of. They think they want to have them, even if they have to keep them at some sort of twisted altar someplace down in the basement.

Everything in this business conspires to make you bitter and twisted and tough, ... I've always tried to keep a toughness on one side and complete vulnerability on the other. To me, if you get a thick skin, you might as well give up directing.

We had people on first and third, and it became a bang-bang play. Her ankle got twisted up in there, and she went to the hospital.

So the whole structure is weakened and collapses. Our system ties down the roof joists and rafters to the exterior walls down to the foundation. If windows and doors are broken and the house is twisted on its foundation, the occupants are still safe.

Our senior twisted his knee and our little sophomore (Reed) has stepped up and done a good job.

The result of the cracking is to relax the interior and exterior field to a less twisted state. This has very little impact on the star itself, other than the fact that it will take time to twist up the field again.

Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.

The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary.

Your twisted hatred extinguished a bright innocent flame. You are a very small man. Little person, big bomb, but you are still a small man.

I knew right away and I was kind of in denial to start with. I tried to walk it off but I heard a pop. I got caught in one of those situations where someone kind of twisted me and sat on my leg and you know, what are you going to do?

I mean, we are talking about one of the most celebrated and twisted characters of Western tradition. It gives you a sense of a do-or-die bravado.

If I would have just dropped to the ice it probably wouldn't have been so bad. But I twisted on the way day and that scared me a little bit.

In October through to November 2004 he met a group who changed his life. He became a man I didn't recognize. I have no doubt his mind was twisted in there,

In the last six weeks, Bill Thomas' Kern County has just gotten way more than it deserves, and I know that Thomas has just enormous clout, ... all the rules are twisted again to benefit Kern County.

Nothing was broken. Her arm got twisted a little bit when a player fell on her hand.

David Gibbs better get his act together, because I'm getting sick and tired of everything being twisted and turned.

It's satire it's my own twisted sense of humor, The Wizard of Oz.

It takes the strength of a Greek god to untangle yourself from the twisted sheets of slumber and throw back the blankets of darkness that have held you captive for so long.

I twisted my ankle early on and I felt it a little bit. I was a little bit distracted but it got better game by game after that,

I twisted my ankle. My whole left side is falling apart,

I twisted no one's arm. Many of them came to me.

I twisted the ankle trying to position myself to hit a backhand. I immediately felt something wasn't right.

I noticed in the hallway a black janitor and I wondered why he was standing there. And he had a mop under his arm. And as I passed him, he turned his body, twisted his body, and touched me with the mop handle. Now this delivered a message and the message was clear: We are looking after you while you are here,

I just twisted it a little and got hit on it. I could have played. I'm fine. We just made the decision not to play.

Certainly when you have to leave a game, it's a concern. The doctor looked at it and didn't say it was too bad, so we'll see what the next couple of days will bring, how sore it's going to be. I twisted it. My leg was under me and I kind of put my body weight on it and I heard it twist pretty hard.

Hopefully it's not going to be long for him to be out. He's a big guy. He came down and twisted his ankle pretty bad. I saw it.

I didn't know I was injured until I began to feel the pain, and looked down at my leg and it was twisted at a crazy angle and my knee looked like it was stacked with a lot of knee caps, ... The pain was unbelievable.

George Bush's guiding principle is a twisted reflection of the American bargain, ... Instead of opportunity for all, special privileges for none, he's given us, opportunity for all the special interests.

They kept hitting me in the side of the ribs. Just in the heat of battle. I twisted it (in the third), and then I twisted it again. I wanted to come out, but I didn't want to come out. We were trying to make a run.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

A friend invited us to go, but she twisted her ankle and couldn't come. But we're glad we did. It's a beautiful day, there's a slight breeze. . . . We're having fun.

The fracture was caused when he twisted his ankle. He will be in plaster for about 10 days and will then start physiotherapy.

The IBP is greatly disturbed by this move of the government because the Constitution and the rule of law cannot be twisted or manipulated to serve partisan ends.

My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?

For example, if someone has a twisted ankle and they want to go to the hospital, our paramedics can downgrade it and call in one of these crews.

I tore my ACL. I guess I landed wrong and twisted my knee. It's getting stronger, and I'm supposed to be back for the beginning of the season, so I'm just waiting for that.

It's a tightly twisted product that wears well.

It's a twisted little look at cultural imperialism as refracted through a relationship between a trust-fund stoner and a male prostitute, ... It's really fun.

It's kind of a twisted cycle, but I think that there is less money in real music these days,

It is really tough. The building was made of steel and concrete. The steel is just twisted like pretzels; the concrete is just basically disintegrated.

It was quite hard to walk through there. You say, 'Wow! How could they do this?' Many things are twisted facts.

It?s like, 'Surely this is going to be the last one? This will be the last one.' And they just keep putting them out. But I guess in some strange, twisted way it?s a form of flattery in that people are interested in what?s going on with us. But it is frustrating.

It's been a twisted tale in the last couple days that I don't pretend to fully understand.