Quotes About Distortion

The fact is, I find it extremely difficult to force myself to read old letters... Whenever one really knows the facts, one finds that what is accepted by contemporaries or posterity as the truth about them is so distorted or out of focus that it is not worth worrying about.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.

Todos os grandes esquemas da razão sofreram o mesmo destino. Eles só descreveram sua trajetória, só seguiram o curso de sua história no diminuto topo da camada social detentora do sentido (e em particular do sentido social), mas no essencial somente penetraram nas massas ao preço de um desvio, de uma distorção radical.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I don't know how to answer. I know what to think, but words in the head are like voices under water. They are distorted.

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

Piano feels soft. Violins and all different string instruments feel soft. Guitar, even electric guitar before you start adding distortion, that you can play soft.

When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics.

I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.

The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.

Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have been at the time they occured.

If I had rescued a child from drowning, the national press would no doubt have headlined the story "Benn grabs child."

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Don't make gods into demons.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

Having a matrix of preferences presented as your essence, as the whole you? Maybe that was it. It was some kind of mirror, but it was incomplete, distorted.

Mental Filtering. You filter out or ignore the positives and focus entirely on the negatives. It's like a drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water.