Twist Quotations

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

I often eat Skippy's Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I don't shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open.

I don't want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle.

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene.

For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

My favorite songwriting trick is writing something like 'XO.' In my brain, I thought, 'This is probably going to be a love song. How can I change that and find ways to twist that.' As a songwriter, it's your job for the song to take twists and turns that people don't expect.

We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story.

I was in Christian broadcasting back in the 1970s. I was director of communications for James Robinson, and I really thought Christian broadcasting was going to be my career. There have been so many twist and turns in my life; of course I haven't been a pastor for almost 22 years, but it was a very important part of my life.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.

I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.

Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.

'Warm Bodies' is a love story: a zombie-human being love story. And people are comparing it to 'Twilight,' but I think it's three times better. It has a comedic twist to it as well.

In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better.

Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

I'm a mash-up of everyone. My influences would be Michael Jackson, Brandy, Aaliyah - those types of people. So if you can imagine them - and with me taking them, and then putting my own twist and the influence on it - that's musically what I would sound like.

I think - I honestly think that my story is not 100 percent that unique. I think that I'm - just the whole rock star part kind of throws an interesting twist on it.

The thing is, God has already seen every twist and turn of your life. He already knows what's in your heart. He already knows the decisions you've made. He's just waiting for you to call on Him and be honest with Him like Jonah was.

When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.

We're keeping our fingers crossed it's not a fracture. He's gone to hospital for x-rays. It might just be the join but you worry when you see the ankle twist like that.

Woods are built to get the ball into the air quicker. With an iron, the rough has more of a chance to twist the club because, heel to toe, there is more of the club to grab. As long as these holes are, I'm just hoping to drive it in the fairway. I can't compete from the rough. I have to drive it in play and go from there.

We have a stove in there. It's exactly like the school she describes in her book. We twist hay to put in the stove like Laura did.

We'll be encouraging runners to watch their footing and try not to twist their ankle.

We didn't want him to twist in the wind another night.

Legendary soul classics performed by one of the greatest soul voices of the 20th Century ... it doesn't get better than that. By putting our own twist on it, we are making these beloved soul classics new again.

Seymour did a twist and he caught me in an awkward angle. We were handling it pretty well until that play.

Shoulders down, don't reach, use your hips and don't forget to twist in your side kicks,

may be the twist that makes this more successful than other attempts to erode the (Microsoft) Office franchise.

Nobody cooks at home like they cook in restaurants; they'd all be dead, ... Home cooking is not trendy at all. French cooking really consists of some few hundred recipes handed down. Everyone has a little twist on what is a classic recipe.

I wish I could bear-hug him and twist his arm but he's a pretty big guy. We definitely want him. Hopefully when he makes his decision, the Yankees will come up first.

I came up with a unique twist on standard instruction techniques and I felt that this would make a really big difference. So I partnered with a couple of filmmakers in Hollywood and we made the DVD.

But as far as cocktails, a couple of ladies that I've dated in the past really loved Rum and Coke. So I like that occasionally, with a twist of lime.

I don't want the sympathy twist on this. All I did was the right thing. I went in for my yearly mammogram and they found it.

He is a very good spinner. He gives the ball a good twist and has a very bright future.

What marketers try to do is take a problem and twist it to their advantage, ... If you can't pronounce the name, all of a sudden it becomes something that's slightly less attainable for the consumer and it becomes more desirable. But it's equally likely that when people don't buy it, it's because they don't know how to pronounce the name.

There is no easy way, or a good time, to let someone know that their contract will not be renewed. We didn't want him to twist in the wind another night.

I think with 'Chunky Rice,' it felt novel to me to give this emo twist on these funny animals.

I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all.

I think they'll (the Fed) move at the meeting but I think the market is grasping at any straws you can twist into an optimistic story.

Janet has been in the art world for many, many years. She has certainly worked with galleries, but the idea of exhibiting in a home furnishings store, which is so in keeping with what she's doing in her paintings, is a wonderful complement and fresh approach, a twist on the exhibit world. At Rodney Hunter, we specialize in teak wood furniture, so her warm tones enliven our pieces, and our furniture, as elegant as it is, elevates her work.

People are not paying very close attention to it, ... At this point this market is just living and dying with every twist and turn of weather report -- we'll probably revisit it later but it's not important until we get Rita out of our systems.

Steve Martin writes this play about something very serious. But, as Steve Martin, he puts his own little twist on words. The wit is quick and very funny in addition to presenting an interesting message.

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.

Lithe and long as the serpent train,Springing and clinging from tree to tree,Now darting upward, now down again,With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see.

Lithe and long as the serpent train, Springing and clinging from tree to tree, Now darting upward, now down again, With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see.

I was hoping to do something to twist people's point of view just a tiny bit, to make them look at things just a hair differently.

The American Indian Exposition has a new twist this year. It's not just American Indians. They have dancers from South America. They are here to show their wares as well.

My brother was a grad student at Duke, and he gave me a Cameron Crazies shirt, so I thought I'd twist it up a little bit.

We put a new twist on it at the Dodge County Fair.

We really opened up for the film of King George, but then the places where its characters lived and worked cried out to be opened up. The world of this story is the school, so the big decision we took was not to twist ourselves in knots trying to give it a false sense of scale. Closed worlds like schools, army bases, prisons or hospitals are fantastic, because they stand as a microcosm for a bigger world.

Using them can also strengthen the body through a range of motions by working across a number of different planes and through different directions. You can bend, twist and lean with them far more effectively to target muscles specific to different sports.

Use your biggest, strongest muscles for the heavy stuff. We tend to lift a shovel of dirt, then twist to the side to dump it. Move your feet instead.

We were genuinely shocked when the community didn't respond to the script. But there was a concern that it was so different that people weren't going to be able to embrace it. The conventional wisdom is that even with very distinctive shows, the winning formula in television is a twist on a very traditional franchise.

We made her get up on the bus and start singing and dancing. She did a little twist on the bus, but she gets embarrassed pretty quickly.

There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.

We want this to be the Lollapalooza of the decade, but with a community-service twist to it.

We want the public to know that these ads are full of untruths, misinformation and are generally designed to distort and twist information about the Boise School District.

When our masseuse took care of Nash ... I requested to her that she tighten his leg, and twist him hard.... Just joking, obviously.

When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.

Why does insanity always twist the great answers? Because only tormented persons want truth.Man is an animal like other animals, wants food and success and women, not truth. Only if the mind Tortured by some interior tension has despaired of happiness: then it hates its life-cage and seeks further, And finds, if it is powerful enough. But instantly the private agony that made the search Muddles the finding. Then search for truth is foredoomed and frustrate? Only stained fragments? Until the mind has turned its love from itself and man, from parts to the whole.

We've honored veterans before, and it's normally the men who get honored, but this year we thought we'd give it a twist and honor the women. You women need to be honored.

We are expecting about the same number of participants as last year, ... It is not too late for anyone who is interested in attending to sign up. We have a new twist this year, we will have several players from the old Southern Association on hand to talk about their playing days. It was a suggestion we got from the group last year.

We are essentially cloaking him with some guidance and letting him say his piece. And not letting the guy twist away in the wind.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.

We had a somewhat limited budget and the person I got (Anderson and Jeffries) felt there was a little bit of a weight difference. It's not my job to twist their arm and make them take the fight. They weren't happy. I'd looked high and low and been all over place and when I finally found someone, they didn't want to fight.

What (stores like Twist and Shout) can give you is what was recently referred to at a music convention was 'the Jack Black' - the character he played in that movie (Hi Fidelity) about the record store - the guy who turns you on to music.

We try to teach more than just basketball. We try to touch the spiritual side of the players, too. That's why we used the twist about covenants. We signed a covenant stating that we wanted to be remembered. We used the scripture Habakkuk 2:2, where it says 'See a vision and write it clear and simple.' So we wrote it down, that we wanted to be remembered, signed it and started working and playing as such since then.

Values-based organizations are the most enduring, the most sustainable and consistent. Yet they remain flexible. Individuals or organizations that twist and turn with every new idea , every change in the direction of the wind, are like ships without rudders. They end up going round in circles, never quite reaching their goals.

use intelligence to shape policy, not twist intelligence to justify policy.

To watch 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile' should be fun. We want people to come and enjoy the show. The concept is something extraordinary. It's comical but has a very intriguing twist to it.

Both of them are obviously going to be great players in the league for a long time. It's something to see. There's so many different ways you can twist things around, so I think everything's up in the air. You almost wish they could share the award, but you just have to wait and see what happens.

Bremen has played the best soccer this season and they didn't allow themselves to get distracted. It's an ironic twist of fate that Kahn, one of our best, makes this mistake.

Bill Scranton acted quickly, decisively and correctly. That's one of the reasons he will be a great governor. ... People who know me will realize that I had no intent to inject race into the discussion, but only to emphasize the odd twist in the campaign.

Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad.

Things like lifting luggage, or, when you're reversing your car, how you twist around to see where you're going. I'm very careful when I lift things.

The wind actually caused the vehicle to twist and I lost it. I turned around and ended up in the ditch. I'm lucky.

I've never seen it staged or on film, but the story is so intense that I could feel the adrenaline running through my body while reading it. There's this chest-tightening anxiety of being thrown into the middle of this conflict between the different characters. I also love the idea that you can be drawn in by hateful characters. It takes a very good writer to create a character that you despise, yet find engaging. And there's the twist of the imaginary child. As it develops, you realize what is actually going on beneath it all. It's shocking and pretty horrifying.

It was true that I was keen for him to stay. However I have spoken to him three or four times in Japan. I did not twist his arm to come back. He wants to play for the All Blacks.

I've always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I'm drawn to more classic looks, though I'll still put my own twist on them.

Roll, roll, roll a joint, twist it at the end, light it up, take a puff, pass it to you're friend.

Roll, roll, roll a joint, twist it at the end, light it up and take a puff, pass it to your friend.

After the ads run for a long time, they become formulaic, and you become wallpaper. You have the same comic twist and you get a little predictable.

The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'

An unexpected twist of a shoulder that comes out on one side and doesn't on the other side, folding a fabric to create interesting shapes on the body -- they're very sensual clothes.

As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

The bottom line is when people are running and know that it's down to the hour they will often get desperate and twist information to confuse and mislead voters.

That's not our job - to twist some kid's arm to go be a teacher.

This is an interesting twist on an argument that the Air Force has been pursuing for some time on the need to cut its purchases of Joint Strike Fighters. The Air Force has settled on a number of about 1,100.

They are dressing up the results without listening to the will of the people, ... I want them to know if they attempt to twist the will of the people that I will be the first to go to the streets at the front of the line, to defend the rights of the nation.

There was no bigger fan of the original show than me, and I'm very excited to be able to put a new twist on it.

There's a bit of a strange twist to my ending I won't say what. I was anxious not to abandon the romance, the fairy tale, the magic in this ballet but at the same time I wanted to reach that from an everyday world, for him to create that romantic notion of an ideal woman for himself not to go skipping through some fairy-tale woods and stumble across an enchanted swan-woman.

The most dangerous is that it's humiliating you. The communism humiliates your pride, because it's forcing you voluntarily to twist your spine.

A comedian knows how to twist a phrase and make a face and fall over a chair or whatever they have to do to get that laugh, that's what they know how to do. That's what Chris Rock does in voiceover.

It's a huge mistake to theorize before one has the facts because you begin to twist the facts to match the theory.

It's getting better step by step. The question will be whether the shoulder holds up against every twist and strain.

It's Saran Wrap. You pull it and twist it, and it looks like trickling water.