Top 521 Twist Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.
I've always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I'm drawn to more classic looks, though I'll still put my own twist on them.
Steve Rannazzisi, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, Jon Lajoie - and they're such funny guys that they bring their own sort of twist to it all.
I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
One of the main things when you get notes from a studio is they don't want anyone to be confused ever, everything has got to be so obvious at all times unless it's a twist ending.
I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.
My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.
I'm trying to play tunes in a new way, using all the same scales, harmonies, structures, but twist everything a little bit so that it comes out sounding different.
For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass
Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist
The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.
There's a quality to the sound of a trumpet that you can really twist for any kind of sound and mood that you want to create.
Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene.
For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is so ruinous as a forced 'twist,' I think.
Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.
A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
When I hear 'The Twist,' sometimes I hear it, and I go, 'Wow - I really did that song. It could have been anybody, but it was me. Isn't that great.'
True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.
I like classics but I always add a twist because I don't like to think of my clothes as classic.
they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!
For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.
Usually there will be a funny trend that I put my own twist on or something hilarious happens to me and I think - 'This would be a perfect TikTok.'
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.
I want to treat every ingredient in a way that conveys its most pure qualities, but with a little bit of a dreamy twist.
My style, I'd definitely describe as athleisure with a twist of gay, which I really, really live for.
Watch out for negative power places on the earth, if you can "see" they are reddish and they twist your feelings. They don't vibrate at a rate conducive to humanity.
Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome to my world.
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.
Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried.
Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.
It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.
Yeah when you're in the middle of filming this movie [Bad Santa 2] it doesn't matter what you say you can think of some sort of way to twist it into something dirty so we were laughing a lot.
It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.
The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.
The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break it down, the joke isn't filthy at all: it's clever.
A judge may never subvert the law or twist it in any way to match the judge's convictions.
The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry.
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.
In some ways we describe 'Boxtrolls' as 'Oliver Twist' if Terry Gilliam had made it. I think he's an extraordinary artist, and animator.
I have a hard time with films that I feel like I can predict every twist or turn they take from the moment I start reading the script.
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.
We need people who are open to doing something with theme, something with a cartoonish twist.
Just when you think you’ve got Arranged figured out, time and again Catherine McKenzie delivers the flawless, unexpected twist that keeps you glued to the book.
Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!
One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
It seems so easy to write about some normal event and twist it a little bit to make it into a supernatural event.
When a crime writer thinks up a delicious twist, it is a great moment. Time to relax and take the rest of the day off. I do think that it can be overdone, however.
You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.
I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."
I love Shogun world. It's so beautiful. The performances are beautiful. It's like classic Japanese cinema, with a little 'Westworld' twist.
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.
Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.
For me 'Oliver Twist' is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.
I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.
