#distort

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#context #deal #destroyed #distorted #either

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature. ↗

— Loretta Young

#distorts #every #face #fall #feature

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted. ↗

— Phil Collins

#distorted #ended #few #last #little

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. ↗

— John Cornyn

#both #distinguish #distorts #does #draw

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely. ↗

— Willard Gaylin

#behavior #completely #define #distortion #exclusively

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself. ↗

— Bob Kane

#believe #cannot #distorted #i #myself

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#democracy #distorted #economy #i #i think

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #compared #distortion #facts #harmless

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders. ↗

— David Knopfler

#always #away #best #bull #creative

I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked. ↗

— Allison Williams

#cameras #college #crazy #distorted #fashion