#distort

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#distorted #features #his #imaginative #man

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#distorts #emotion #emotions #gather #impure

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#been #black #distorted #either #history

It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#did #distorted #fraudulent #ideology #marxists

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. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#efforts #federation #furthermore #government #great

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 think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#creativity #cut #distortion #ever #expected

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. ↗

— George Soros

#basis #bubbles #distorted #grow #market

Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#case #desire #distortions #every #factual