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twist

«And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.»
«As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.»
Author: Anya Seton | Keywords: enthusiastic, twist
«How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan»
«As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.»
«A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.»
«Blame it on a simple twist of fate.»
Author: Bob Dylan | About: Faults | Keywords: blame, fate, The Twist, twist, twisting, twists
«And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.»
«Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.»
«An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.»
«All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.»