Twisting

Famous quotes containing the word twisting:

“Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)

“Farmers in overalls and wide-brimmed straw hats lounge about the store on hot summer days, when the most common sound is the thump-thump-thump of a hound’s leg on the floor as he scratches contentedly. Oldtime hunters say that fleas are a hound’s salvation: his constant twisting and clawing in pursuit of the tormentors keeps his joints supple.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“... is merry glory.
Is saltatory.
Yet he grips his right of twisting free.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)