Top 88 Bent Quotes

Max Baer called me one morning and told me that Carl Foreman was making a movie based on the book ‘Mackenna’s Gold’ and he was sure that I was right for one of the parts. He was so ebullient about it that he bent my ear for 20 minutes.

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.

I’ll do what I’ve got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I’m not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.

Ballroom dancing is so articulate. Your hips have to be a certain way, legs have to be straight at one time and bent another.

The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.

‘Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it… I don’t write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don’t have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it’s bent doesn’t actually register.

It’s easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It’s not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are… the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don’t wake up to ‘The New York Times.’

If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.

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

Spirituality is a great bent of mind. It gives peace and hope to me.

My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

My body’s weird and bent in different ways, but it’s handy for the tango!

I think some people’s brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others.

The Russians are bent on establishing both a presence in the Western Hemisphere, and they’re looking for opportunities to expand military cooperation: sell equipment, air bases, as well as intelligence gathering facilities.

A comedian sees the world bent. I’m tangent to the circle.

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

Unfortunately, I used to play in goal, and I broke my hand. Two fingers. The ball hit me and bent my fingers back. I used to play every Sunday. I was quite competitive.

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

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

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

I wasn’t able to explode, jump, run – not even walk without pain being in the back of my leg. Every time I bent my leg, even in a walking motion, I was wondering what was wrong with me. But I stuck with it.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

For the most part, I’ve been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn’t sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And The Blowfish.

I have a mystical bent, and I pursue daily meditations that follow the liturgical calendar – what are called the ‘daily offices’ of the church.

Only recently – about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy – have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that ‘as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.’

I feel, we actors are out there a lot, and people are hell bent on trying to create perceptions of our lives. We tend to influence people through our lifestyles or mannerisms. It is important that we be honest about our emotions.

The genteel conservatism of ‘Downton Abbey’ is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.

Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.

The jazz chord substitutions in a country song… that was another thing that bent people’s ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It’s not how fast you play. It’s that unique blending of different stuff I’m most proud of.

My father is a psychologist who wouldn’t let fear stop us. Particularly with me, he was hell bent on requiring us and teaching us to walk through fear. I don’t know if I would’ve become someone who taps into their ability to push through those tough situations without him.

I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.

I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn’t so easily bent.

I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don’t think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

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

I don’t know if I’m the most religious guy, but I think I’m a spiritual man, and these are the things I think about a lot. In terms of the film, I think ‘The Grey’ is very much a non-denominational kind of film. I don’t think it’s something that relies on a particular religious bent to tell the story.

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you’re trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization as we know it. We will find him, lock him up, and throw away the key. But give the man credit; for a week the truth was laid bare.

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

There’s absolutely nothing irrational about me; insane, yes, irrational, no. But my dumbest fear would be spinning in the magic tea cups. Who the hell wants to pay to spin around like a bent yoyo for laughs?

Multi-joint movements – squats, push-ups, bent over rows – all put a greater metabolic demand on the body and can be effective when performed with very light weight to get you back up and running. Think bigger movements, not bigger weight, when you are on the mend.

Bent Literary Agency had a Q&A on Twitter, and I took a chance and asked if the Black Lives Matter movement was an appropriate topic for a YA novel. Brooks Sherman, who is now my agent, responded that he didn’t think any topics were inappropriate for YA. I remember being so terrified even just sending the tweet.

America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God’s will is bent to man’s desires, as it is that whereby man’s will is bent to God’s desires.

The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.