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fishhook. It's squiggly like a worm. Something's
I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.
Wart draggled off to the tower room, where Merlyn was busy knitting himself a woollen night-cap for the winter. "I cast off two together at every other line," said the magician, "but for some reason it seems to end too sharply. Like an onion. It is the turning of the heel that does one, every time.
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
When I see birches bend to left and right ... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
What doesn't bend, breaks.
The twist makes it a no-floater summer!
Oh yeah, just push the knife in further and twist, why doncha?!
Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.
I held my arm out in front of me and twisted it back and forth. Palm up. Palm down. Now you look fractured. Now you look whole.
Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.
After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.
Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!
When the wind blows,the grass bends.
The world is bound in secret knots.
I've always said I'm less interested in twists as I am about escalation.
We twist our souls around each other's miseries.
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.
Darling girl, take life by the balls and twist them.
Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat.
The best secrets are the most twisted
Twisted minds are as natural to some people as twisted bodies.
The wheel weaves as the wheel wills
Bend when you must. Pull when you must. Both are an offering. When you bend, be at peace; when you pull, do so gently.
It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.
You untangle a knot with slow teasing, not sharp pulling, and believe me we have here a knot such as I have never seen. But I will unpick it. I will.
Bending from side to side helps you avoid obstacles in racing.
The other night I was playing twister with some amputees.
Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.
You're twisting my words."
"I think you are doing a fine job of twisting them yourself.
Bend like a willow. You made it sound so simple."
"It was simple."
"Indeed. I bent and changed everything. This is going to have consequences.
Her hands twisted restlessly together like a pair of pink and hairless animals at play.
Lord, bend me, or I shall rot.
Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break.
Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break!
Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
the wrinkled sleeve of the head
Magic lives in curves, not angles.
You know who invented the twist, right?" asked the man next to him. "It was John D. Rockefeller. He was a germophobe, and citrus was a natural disinfectant, so Rockefeller always asked his bartenders to run a lemon peel around the rim of his glass.
bent ostentatiously to her work.
mean it could be," said Grandpa. "Really?" said Norm. "Might just be the thin end of the wedge, Norman." And what was that supposed to mean? thought Norm. Thin end of what flipping wedge? A wedge of cheese? What was it with flipping cheese today? Everyone
Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.
At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way?
I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
soul it shaped. Laurel
Twist my Body like the Exorcist ...
Swish and flick.
I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.
It was the product of a mind that was not merely twisted, but actually sprained.
Reality itself is too twisted.
I want a God that makes me twirl.' I jumped off the couch. I untucked and unbuttoned my shirt so it would flow like a robe. 'Like this. I can do this for God.' I held my hands out. I twirled and twirled and twirled. 'Look,' I said. 'Look.
When you are stuck in a spiral, to change the aspects of the spin you only need to change one thing.
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
Swirling like water against rugged rocks, time goes around and around
Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.
Time unslid the knot of any last ribbon of tension.
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.
It is funnier to bend things than to break them.
I'm a shape shifter.
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.
Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.
But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
He makes me turn,
he makes me toss;
his words mean mine
are at a loss.
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.
she is bent under the weight of her burden
Is that thing actually going round? I can't tell
It is actually a good survival strategy to manipulate twist, and reorganize the truth in a way that is more consistent with what we can psychologically tolerate.
This is a twisted, twisted tale. A tale of twisted love.
I twist like a flower
at the sound of your voice
But you leave the receiver
static most days
You have me growing into a dial tone
All it would take is your voice
saying my name
And I would behead myself
to be carried around on your lapel
How swift, the slippage from keeping it together to losing it.
Learn to bend with the wind.
Wanting nothing more than for it to unravel, unbind.
There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot.
With each step and each turn, we threaded deeper inside a knot, one I feared we'd never work apart. The
All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?
But there's a twist. There's always a twist.
I can loop my tongue into multiple rolls.
A love that is twisted is a terrible thing. One thing worse than that is a life without any love at all.
When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.
There's still a part of her that's waiting for the twist, the moment when all of this pleasure will jackknife into pain.
Loopy as a crochet convention.
used one end to loosen the tacks,
Tricking?" Ravel said. "I wouldn't call it tricking, no. Manipulating? It could possibly be seen as manipulating.
I'm definitely partial to the "Twin Twist." I've always found that to be really fun.
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
Noblest minds are easiest bent.
Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
There was a toy gyroscope, wound with string, ready to whirr and balance itself.
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
Each day move a little more from tightening to lightening.
Are we for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope?
For ever in the same track - for ever at the same pace?
Th' longest lane will have a turning ...
Fold and live to fold again.
There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.
Now I'm in the process of fine turning.