#bent

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle. ↗

— Jack White

#battle #bent #bit #conquer #express

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#bent #evil #left #making #markers

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#bent #dance #had #i #knees

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#characteristics #completely #incumbent #know #knowledge

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. ↗

— Andre Gide

#follow #good #leads #long #own

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#authority #bent #get #i #i think

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#champion #else #exhaustion #looking #nobody

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#bent #country #i #leader #live

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#flexible #metal #more #than #weight

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#bent #civilization #destroying #fighting #group