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Quotes About Twist

Yes she met with a slight accident involving a stake." Ash said "funny how that happens sometimes...
~ Unknown
I once made love to a female clown, and she twisted my penis into a poodle.
~ Unknown
On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an "oh shit" moment.
~ Martha Wells
The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Thank you for your bounty, Oleander, Prince of Poisons, I think. Thank you for all that Mr. Pratt has already received, and all that my father is receiving still, as the poison twists like bramble in his gut, burns within his brain, presses like a boulder upon his heart.
~ Unknown
Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.
~ Masaharu Morimoto
Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
~ Max Eastman
Surprise is one of the most universally accepted formulas for humor. A joke is a story, and a surprise ending is usually its finale.
~ Unknown
The basic two-step in humor is to (a) state some common problem, frequently with a cliché, and (b) create an unexpected ending or surprise.
~ Unknown
2. At the very end of Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf's stomach is filled with a. Granny's famous chicken wings b. Granny c. absolutely nothing
~ Michael Buckley
Irony, like sin, never rests.
~ Unknown
This wretched little magazine article has helped convince more open-minded liberal arts graduates that the nuclear family doesn't exist without some hideous twist, like the dad is allowed to go to an S&M dungeon once a week or something. It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.
~ Mindy Kaling
You can twist perception, reality won't budge
~ Neil Peart
How people pervert religious doctrine to serve their own needs.
~ Unknown
free-floating, gutless state of frantic evasiveness that preferred to twist and temporize rather than take a stand which required commitment to defend.
~ Nick Cohen
She withdrew to the shadows and began the long walk back under a twist of stars.
~ Nicola Griffith
When Bill Cunningham invites him on the air, it is not to set the story straight so the story ends. It is to add a new chapter, a new twist that propels the narrative forward into another week of ratings cycles.
~ Noah Hawley
I give you now Professor Twist The conscientious scientist. Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles" And sent him off to distant jungles. Camped on a tropic riverside One day he missed his lovely bride. She had, the guide informed him later, Been eaten by an alligator. Professor Twist could not but smile. You mean," he said "a crocodile.!
~ Ogden Nash
Los sonidos se han enroscado y han echado para atrás sus ojos de caracol
~ Olga Tokarczuk
The man recover'd of the bite,The dog it was that died.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
If I were to experience failure upon failure day after day — nothing but total embarrassment — then perhaps I'd develop some semblance of dignity as a result. But no, I would somehow illogically twist even such failures, gloss over them smoothly, so that it would seem like they had a perfectly good theory behind them. And I would have no qualms about putting on a desperate show to do so.
~ Osamu Dazai
He gripped it and the sky began to spin; and Pidge knew that if he didn't put it right, the country would somehow obey the signpost and twist around and that, even though he was directly headed for Shancreg and home, he would end up in Kyledove.
~ Unknown
The yew tree is the most important of all the healing trees, it said. It lives for thousands of years. Its berries, its bark, its leaves, its sap, its pulp, its wood, they all thrum and burn and twist with life. It can cure almost any ailment man suffers from, mixed and treated by the right apothecary.
~ Patrick Ness