Distortionate Quotes & Sayings

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs — Lenny Breau

To successfully tell the story, we had to be willing to let people see us as we really were; with all our weaknesses, fears, and imperfections. There are important lessons we learned from the experience that we would not have adequately relayed to the reader if we had been less bold." ~ Duane — Duane & Selena Pannell

I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid. — Mike Tyson

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures. — Tom Hooper

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. — Barbara Stanwyck

Robert Kirk believed the fairies to be the doubles or, as he called them, the 'co-walkers' of men, which accompanied them through life, and thought that this co-walker returned to Faerie when the person died. — Lewis Spence

I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer. — Jim Gaffigan

I needed to do a lot of saying no. I had a lot of [interest] from people who I just didn't think were quite right for it. And I didn't want a bad film to be made of the book, either a sentimental one or a creepy one, so I did a lot of, "No thank you." Then when the right filmmaker came along, yes, I suppose I presented myself very much as wanting to be the writer. — Emma Donoghue

We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact. This feeling is EVIL. Learn to see it in yourself, and then learn to be horrified by how thoroughly it can poison your mind. Yes evidence may at times force you to disagree with a majority, and your friends may have correlated exposure to that evidence, but take no pleasure when you and your associates disagree with others; that is the road to rationality ruin. — Robin Hanson

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you. — David Allen

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph. — Mercy Otis Warren

As if a person's greatness need never be pointed out, for it is there, anyway, in the silent being. — Morrissey