Quotes About Twist

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

I admit that the second murder in the book often cheers things up.

Her works are not about the blood, but the marrow. They can be charming and harrowing at the same time.

One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.

You can see that ladylike kind of dressing with a twist coming back at Dior, and I think that a lot of the fashion is following in those kinds of footsteps. It's wearable. It sits in your wardrobe forever.

'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.

Because for me, equations and symbols aren't just a thing. They're a voice that speaks out about the incredible richness of nature and the startling simplicity in the patterns that twist and turn and warp and evolve all around us, from how the world works to how we behave.

you twist logic to your own purposes." "It's a lawyer's duty," sniffed Phloxia,

The rape of "ladies" was strictly taboo, but this protection did not apply to women and girls without social standing.) The fear of rape, as well as the actual experience, gave a unique twist to women's experience of the Revolutionary War.

Many whites who were suspected of loyalties to the British were hounded, tarred and feathered, sent into exile—but they were not hanged on the mere suspicion of what they might do in the future. Something else was going on here, something with a distinctly racial twist. Jeremiah personified the worst fears of white patriots: what if black men, acting as their own agents, sided against them?

One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.

The element of surprise - where you think you know where a joke is going, and then you're wrong. Those are my favorite kind of jokes.

It may sound surprising, but a joke and a crime novel work in very much the same way. The comedian/writer leads their audience along the garden path. The audience know what's coming, or at least they think they do until they get hit from a direction they were not expecting.

One way of legitimising coincidences, of course, is to call them ironies. That

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.

Life is biting into a cupcake and finding an eyeball at its center.

By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a landscape of former prairies now long vanished—as somehow more "natural" than the streets, buildings, and parks of Chicago? All represented drastic human alterations of earlier landscapes.

The law wasn't perfect, but anytime those who had the power to twist it did so, it grew more grotesque.

Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'.

Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned.

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.

The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.