Top 772 Oliver Twist Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.
Put your own twist to it. That's how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.
I like American late-night shows, like Trevor Noah, John Oliver and Bill Maher - I've got them all on series link.
I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.
You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.
And from the first declension of the flesh
I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts
Into the stony idiom of the brain.
People are interested not just in Sulu, but George Takei - and he's gay. Life is full of twist and turns.
Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.
What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist.
My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little I think that's where the tie comes from.
Every masculine hero narrative I could find I wanted to steal for myself and twist to my size.
How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.
He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that."
I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise.
Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up.
I'm always surprised to see the way "friends" will twist things or trash people behind their backs.
Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.
I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.
I think with 'Chunky Rice,' it felt novel to me to give this emo twist on these funny animals.
It is hard sometimes to look into the future, you never know what twist and turn the school of life is going to take.
Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.
Every week, there's a different twist and turn you're not going to see coming, and how you handle that is important.
This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that we'd ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadn't said that.
Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.
I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist.
But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.
I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.
I drink tea like Oliver Reed used to drink beer. I must get through about 12 to 15 cups a day.
I was very happy to learn Oliver Stone had decided to make a film about Edward Snowden and believe this is a powerful and inspiring film.
You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.
I don't like planning what am I gonna say to the crowd. Sometimes the show takes a whole different twist.
I don't want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle.
There's a really geeky YouTube channel which I love. It's a guy called Oliver Harper. He makes documentaries about films. He's a real movie buff - there's loads of trivia and detail.
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.
I want to treat every ingredient in a way that conveys its most pure qualities, but with a little bit of a dreamy twist.
I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.
What I need to do is establish myself as Oliver Burke and not as the new Gareth Bale. To do that I need to work hard in La Liga.
I'm a big fan of Jamie Oliver, and I've got all of his books. His recipe for peas with white wine and bacon is one of my favourites.
Oliver McCall was someone who I never really got to know too well, and he had some well-publicized problems.
I think that Jamie Oliver did more good for the nation's cooking when he was just cooking than by telling us what chickens we should eat.
My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.
You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'
As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.
The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'
No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose
My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script.
Oliver Reed was a great man who did things his own way. He used to come into Harveys, my restaurant in Wandsworth, and sit on the floor to have a drink before going to the table.
I had Oliver Reed as a neighbor. He was always in the pub and despite his age, he always wanted to wrestle everyone.
[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".
There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes have had to say to this.
No one but John Oliver is going to be able to figure out the code of making a 20-minute monologue on futures, securities, and currency speculation interesting, funny, and poignant politically.
For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.
