Distort Quotes

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

I had a line in one of my movies - `Everyone knows the same truth.` Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. One person will distort it with a kind of wishful thinking like religion, someone else will distort it by thinking political solutions are going to do something, someone else will think a life of sensuality is going to do it, someone else will think art transcends. Art for me has always been the Catholicism of the intellectuals. There is no afterlife for the Catholics really, and there`s no afterlife for the arts. `Your painting lived on after you` - well, that doesn`t really do it. That`s not what you want. Even if your painting does have some longevity, eventually that`s going to go. There won`t be any works of William Shakespeare or Ludwig van Beethoven, or any theatre to see them in, or air or light. I`ve always felt you`ve got to live your life within the context of this worst-case scenario. Which is true; the worst-case scenario is here.

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It`s delightful to distort size, to see something that`s tiny as though it were vast.

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn`t matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.

Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.

At issue was the question whether, in the desperately divided society, there still remained the will to recognize the issues in time to offset the immense rally of public power to distort and pervert the facts.

One may distort (the truth) to preserve peace.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic