Quotes About Inversion

A lot of what I say isn't my real thoughts, it's this character, and maybe that's true for a lot of comedians. It's really the inversion of my thoughts.

With every new corporate inversion, the tax burden increases on the rest of us to pay what these corporations don't.

Marcos Axiom — everything said is the opposite of the facts

In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.

Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent. Scheherazade's story is a desperate inversion of murder; it is the effort, throughout all those nights, to exclude death from the circle of existence.

The complete reverse was so often the case that he had come to think of it as a kind of natural law.

similarities between the stories: the names of Adapa and Adam, the loss of eternal life, the rejection of a command and the trickster temptation. Yet there were such significant differences: the Shinar pantheon versus the sole Yahweh Elohim; failure to eat rather than eating; no trees, no wife. It was almost as if the Adapa story was an inversion of the Garden of Eden, a replacement narrative intended to displace loyalty from the original story onto a new paradigm.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

There was a crime. But there were also the lovers. Lovers and their happy ends have been on my mind all night long. As into the sunset we sail. An unhappy inversion. It occurs to me that I have not travelled so far after all, since I wrote my little play. Or rather, I've made a huge digression and doubled back to my starting place. It is only in my last version that my lovers end well, standing side by side on a South London pavement as I walk away.

What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

tipped backwards

The moral universe had not so much decayed here. It had been inverted, like some black hole, under the pressure of all the Earth's malice - a place where tribes and histories were sucked in and vaporized, and language flew inside out.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

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

Ideally, the Jump took zero-time—literally zero—and, if it were carried through with perfect smoothness, there would not, could not be any biological sensation at all. Physicists maintained, however, that perfect smoothness required infinite energy so that there was always an "effective time" that was not quite zero, though it could be made as short as desired. It was that which produced that odd and essentially harmless feeling of inversion.

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.

It wants to send us end over end so that what was up will be down.

this approach is exactly backward:

Turn a mountain upside down, you have a woman. Turn a woman upside down, you have a valley. Turn a valley upside down, you get folk music.

Evil spelled backward is live.

The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

With irony we say the opposite of truth.