Top 521 Twist Quotes & Sayings

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don't do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you. And the world is such a gloriously multifaceted, diverse place that there are people in the world who will like you, the real you, as you are.

The one good thing about a movie and music and stuff like that: Sometimes it's a counterpoint between the movie and the music itself, the difference and the tension they build together. I think that could be something that helped with me, because when I write songs now, I write lyrics a bit like that. I try to make the music be an interesting twist on the lyrics and help tell the story in a - I don't tell crazy stories, you know? So a lot of times, the twist is in the subtleties. The twist is in the way the story's told.

Oliver Twist has asked for more!

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.

I would never, for the sake of the story or a twist, have a character do something that they just wouldn't do. I really couldn't. I'd rather miss out on the twist.

The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

History was made the day Chubby Checker went on 'Bandstand' with 'The Twist.'

The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist.

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that too risky for the human population? We have to do the one-handed pain-in-the-ass Alcatraz-style faucets. "What is it they think we will do? Turn 'em all on full, run out into the parking lot, laughing, pushing each other into the bushes?

I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

When you have kids, things come at you that you don't expect and you twist and turn to sort it out.

I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.

Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.

In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

It's basically me saying to the industry that I won't work within the walls in hip-hop. I want to put a twist on things, and that's what that song is all about. It's about putting a twist on stereotypes.

There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.

If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.

What I really like to do is just do the twist!

Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant revision, constant...negation of previous beliefs, and so...the whole world is a twist ending. Every week is a twist ending.

They don't allow a lot of stalling in college, but that's a contradiction, because at the same time they give points for riding the tar out of a guy. And it's too soft on what moves you can use. If you start to twist an arm, it's illegal, if you twist a leg it's illegal. There's no way you can turn a good wrestler over without some pain.

'Legacies' is its own show, and it takes on a younger twist to the supernatural world.

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

The press, when they get a hold of something, they twist things.

Spiral minds are harder to twist.

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

I'm definitely partial to the "Twin Twist." I've always found that to be really fun.

I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.

When it comes to dating, Im straightforward and traditional with a twist.

I'm trying to keep my cooking approachable and accessible but with a little fun twist.

I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.

I don't get the airplay that one in my position deserves. 'Twist and Shout' gets more airplay than 'The Twist,' and that's not right.

The characters are so flat and the dialogue so dull you expect it to be one of those movies whose existence is justified by a big final twist. But it's three days after the screening, and still no twist. Maybe it's coming in the mail?

I've got a tiny little twist in the tooth to the right of my two front teeth that my dad, my aunt and my grandad have all had. It's really weird; it's the Bowman twist. I don't know what it is about my mouth, but it looks a bit wonky to me.

The twist makes it a no-floater summer!

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

'Insidious 2' is a direct continuation of the first movie. We literally pick up from where we left off at the end of the first film. And whereas the first movie is a twist on the haunted house genre, the second movie is a twist on the classic domestic thriller.

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style.

Social media is an influence but with my own twist!

Twist my Body like the Exorcist.

When it comes to dating, I'm straightforward and traditional with a twist.

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.

But there's a twist. There's always a twist.

As long as there is a new twist in the storyline, there cannot be any space for monotony.

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.