Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whittaker Chambers

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.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

David Ayer

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.

The trade figures are distorted by the effects of foreign re-insurance on the World Trade Center. Nevertheless, international trade is contracting.

Michael Jackson

The distortion of the truth bothers me.

Geddy Lee

Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.

Mark Twain

Get the facts first. You can distort them later.

Mark Twain

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

James Vincent McMorrow

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks.

Kim Ki-duk

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

David Blunkett

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.

I think it's fair to say it'll be the least important or most distorted jobs report in memory. Maybe both.

He's by Distorted Humor, and we always want to support our own stallions.

Neal Asher

The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Leon Jouhaux

Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers.

Paul Wolfowitz

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.

Bob Johnson

In the 16 years I've come here, I have never heard so much uninformed, misleading and distorted testimony on a bill.

I think odds are we'll move higher in the week ahead. There's a lot of liquidity, it's what's buoying the markets, it's what's distorting the market, and it tends to move prices up.

David Perry

Their emotions may be preempting their cognitions, or arousal may be distorting their cognition.

Hugh Johnson

These numbers were highly impacted if not distorted by Hurricane Katrina.

Karen Miller

It's not a money issue. It is a health issue. CAMC is distorting the whole thing.

Summer months can be particularly hazardous for forecasters, ... The timing of the end of the school year, seasonal hiring patterns and even weather can distort the monthly figure.

Bill Snyder

The turnovers were more a product of our spacing. We got out of sync and (Romeo) did a nice job of pressing us and distorting our spacing.

Things have been very distorted by how warm the weather was in January. To some extent, we're trying to get a handle on how it impacted the economy. It helped retail spending and housing starts, but has hurt energy prices.

Things can happen quarter to quarter that distort the long-term trends.

Charles Lewis

The inaugural has sort of become a metaphor for the whole political process and how money has distorted it,

These large gender differences may have previously remained undetected because earlier studies looked either at men and women together or a younger, healthier group of men. If you look at men and women combined, you get a highly distorted picture because they respond so differently.

Jack Straw

exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.

Brian Ferneyhough

I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

Geddy Lee

If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally distorted in my view of myself. I'll lose myself in all that.

Aberjhani

Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.