Quotes About Distortion

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

A la gloria de los más famosos se adscribe siempre algo de la miopía de los admiradores.

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

History always tries to understand the meaning of the events it reports; and the fact that a person has a viewpoint does not mean that person is a poor historian and distorts facts to support his or her interpretation.

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth—if such a thing can even be said to exist.

Could he tell her any of this? Of course not. Could he tell her that women almost never qualified for Eternity because, for some reason he did not understand (Computers might, but he himself certainly did not), their abstraction from Time was from ten to a hundred times as likely to distort Reality as was the abstraction of a man.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

The media these days are not so much interested in saying things truthfully without distortion, without misrepresentation, without ridicule.

The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.

The guitar is a funny instrument because you have bendable strings and distortion - there's a potential for noise. It is more exposing. Actually controlling the instrument, using proper vibrato, bending notes in tune, not fretting too hard, controlling the noise is a skill in itself that takes many years.

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

There must be something wrong with the mirrors in our house because every single one I gaze into makes me appear somewhat overweight.

Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past.

When driven by his desire to please a woman, based solely upon the emotion of sex, a man may be, and usually is, capable of great achievement, but his actions may be disorganized distorted, and totally destructive. When driven by his desire to please a woman, based upon the motive of sex alone, a man may steal, cheat, and even commit murder. But when the emotion of LOVE is mixed with the emotion of sex, that same man will guide his actions with more sanity, balance, and reason.

The Procrustean bed in life consists precisely in simplifying the non-linear and making it linear—the simplification that distorts.

I consider straw man no different from theft.