Twisting Quotes

We’ve collected the best Twisting Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Anna Wintour, Vivek Agnihotri, John Lennon, Rory MacLean, Steven Wright. Use them as an inspiration.

1

Finding your way doesn’t mean surviving, just as pleasing an audience doesn’t mean twisting your editorial around search engine optimization and Facebook algorithms.

2

The CCP has become the political incarnation of the deadly coronavirus, infecting the world with illegal trade practices, arm twisting smaller nations, debt – a.k.a death – traps and sinister imperialist ambition.

Vivek Agnihotri

3

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

4

Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of northern lakes, paddling with an inside flick of the blade, leaving a trail of twisting whirlpools in my wake.

5

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

6

In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart.

Peter Baynham

7

For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you‘re going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.

8

I don’t believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

9

I think the universe is pure geometry – basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

Antony Garrett Lisi

10

Hair is an issue for most women, and after washing, blow-drying, flat-ironing, curling, braiding, twisting and spending the time and money on it, who wants to mess it up by sweating and having to do it all over again?

Nicole Ari Parker

11

Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.

12

As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It’s the opposite of a treadmill – or an interstate highway.

13

I took the name Green Destiny from – well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it’s an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

14

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

15

In regards to core training, I try to incorporate the medicine ball whenever possible. As a baseball player, there is a lot of twisting and turning that I will do. Keeping my abs strong is as important as anything else.

16

I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.

Valentino Garavani

17

We do a lot of twisting and turning in our training. Those types of moves really help get the body moving and make sure we’re staying agile, which is so important in the ring.

18

In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don’t realize what I’m doing. I’ll snap back to reality and I realize, ‘Hey, I just ripped that boy‘s helmet off,’ or, ‘I’m over here twisting this guy‘s knee.

Brian Bosworth

19

I was always interested in skateboarding, BMX bike riding, flipping, gymnastics. Anything with tumbling, turning, twisting, and extreme sports.

20

I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion – I couldn’t do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

21

All too often, we see politicians on both sides desperately twisting themselves into partisan-hack pretzels, for the sole purpose of defending their own ‘team‘ or attacking the other, without any thought to principles or values whatsoever.

22

Yoga is not a practice – the word ‘yoga‘ means union. It does not mean standing on your head, twisting your body, or holding your breath. Yoga means to know the union of life. When you experience everything as a part of yourself, you are in yoga.

23

Disinformation is more than just lying: it’s the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.

24

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

Christian Slater

25

I have no problem twisting the facts if it’s the only way I can be true to the moment.

Francis Alys