Quotes About Twist

I have a certain perspective and intolerance for people who try to twist and bend whatever the truth might be.

I can write a happy song, but there has to be some sort of twist. Otherwise it feels a bit cheesy.

All the dramas I admire most - 'Six Feet Under,' 'The Sopranos' - even when the scenes aren't laugh-out-loud funny, per se, there's a comic twist that gives the stories an energy.

Latto is like 'Lotto,' but my little twist on it. It's good fortune - I got '777' tatted on me. I live this.

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.

My concept of a 'Doctor Who' girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in unsuitable footwear. Of course you fell over and twisted your ankle, because you had high heels on.

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.

It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple.

Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

A Plot Point is defined as any incident, episode, or event that hooks into the action and spins it around in another direction—

It's the first time I've really enjoyed dancing. I sometimes even forget I belong to an inferior race. The Twist is the greatest ritual since circumcision—and there you can choose between the genius of two cultures. Myself I prefer the Twist."1

Fate laughs at men's schemes.

Nurse: "Doctor, the man you just gave a clean bill of health to dropped dead right as he was leaving the office". Doctor: "Turn him around, make it look like he was walking in."

Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think?

fate has a cruel sense of humor

Yes she met with a slight accident involving a stake." Ash said "funny how that happens sometimes...

His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile.

Innocently, as they moved past her, she added, "Oh, and don't trip over the body on the floor.

History is like a long, twisted joke. You never know when the punch line will come.

Then what happened next happened.

The road through Irish history is made up of lanes which wind about, and never come to an end till they twist into pathways which never begin.

Plot-wise, there's nothing particularly groundbreaking about 'Scalped.' It starts off as something we've seen plenty of times before: the story of an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a criminal organization and the story of the guy at the head of that organization. The twist was always the setting: a modern-day Native American reservation.

Every man imagines that he will turn his suit like a double agent, that it can be twisted to his will with irony or comedy, that the man can undermine its origins.