Top 772 Oliver Twist Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
A humorous quotation is a little window on the world that gives life a comic twist.
I love Russell Crowe's line to Oliver Reed in 'Gladiator' where he asks him, 'Are you in danger of becoming a good man?' It's one of my favorite lines ever.
There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist.
Jamie Oliver's books are the best. I love Jamie. Bless him!
Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.
I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.
Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.
I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious.
As long as there is a new twist in the storyline, there cannot be any space for monotony.
In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.
You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.
I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn't be alone... so I had to bring him wherever I went.
I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.
With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.
In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked
I asked for a glass of Chardonnay. And in a 9/11-like twist, they didn't have any. They offered me Pinot.
Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.
Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause.
My drummer, Gene Lake, is Oliver Lake's son. So I certainly have wide tastes, in not only what I listen to, but what I play as well.
I'm definitely partial to the "Twin Twist." I've always found that to be really fun.
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.
I started off in sports centers with no promoter, no TV, no backing, just me, my bag and Oliver Harrison, having to sell tickets.
Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.
I don't want a little Oliver/Olivia parasite running about eating my biscuits. My friends, on the other hand, are procreating like humanity depends on it, and it doesn't.
Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style.
'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.
For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match for Oliver Sacks.
Stark was my late Grandmother's maiden name. When I joined the acting union in the UK 'Oliver Jones' was taken so I had to come up with something else!
I was about ten when I first got laughs playing Fagin in 'Oliver' at junior school in Offerton. It was the best feeling in the world, and I didn't want it to end.
[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."
I like timeless and classic pieces with an interesting and modern twist. And I love a little funk!
You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.
Oh yeah, just push the knife in further and twist, why doncha?!
I can write a happy song, but there has to be some sort of twist. Otherwise it feels a bit cheesy.
Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
If you want to give a twist to a song, I have no problem, but don't forget to mention the original composer's name.
I have a certain perspective and intolerance for people who try to twist and bend whatever the truth might be.
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.
I'm trying to keep my cooking approachable and accessible but with a little fun twist.
When you have kids, things come at you that you don't expect and you twist and turn to sort it out.
I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.
[Lily] "Petunia's hair is too curly to braid," She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.
In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.
There are some people in this world who always turn and twist the spoken word out of proportion.
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'
I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton.
I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.
Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's attention.
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
My opinion may be different to many, but I think Oliver Skipp is an incredible talent and one of the most professional guys I have come across in the academy.
'Legacies' is its own show, and it takes on a younger twist to the supernatural world.
When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
I was in a two-person show [with Oliver Ralli] called the Midwesterners where we wrote all of our own stuff and we traveled the country with it. That's what eventually led me to L.A.
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'