Anne Frank

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

German Writer

George R. R. Martin

Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.

American Author

Katrina Kaif

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

British Actress

Thomas Merton

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Jeff Bauman

By some crazy twist of fate I was able to remember the moments leading up to the bombings, and in the end, it helped people. I'm not a hero; I did what any normal person would do.

Jameela Jamil

Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your interests, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals.

English Celebrity

Ilaiyaraaja

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

Indian Musician

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

The more secrets and twists in a character, the better.

Danish Actor

Ashley Nell Tipton

Social media is an influence but with my own twist!

American Designer

Max Baucus

American Politician

Used to describe twisting objects by hand, demonstrating a physical manipulation.

Physical Action

Can represent changes in situations or plans, not just physical objects.

Metaphorical Use

Highlights a sudden, unexpected change in a story, often used in storytelling.

Narrative Surprise

A twist can drive the plot forward or reshape the audience's perspective.

Plot Development

Often creates a visual image of one item wrapping around another.

Visual Imagery

Refers to a popular 1960s dance, evoking a specific cultural era.

Cultural Reference

Indicates a sudden physical injury due to over rotation.

Injury Context

Suggests intention to deceive by altering facts or meaning.

Manipulating Truth

Usually implies a dishonest or negative alteration of information.

Negative Connotation

 friction between her pointe shoe and the floor, and somewhat between her body and the air, reduces her momentum. So how does she keep turning? Between each turn, the dancer pauses for a split second and faces the audience. Her supporting foot flattens, and then twists as it rises back onto pointe,

The physics of the...

 just like human athletes do, instead of building machines with redundancy. We can't help but hold our breath when we watch a diver somersaulting into the water, or when a vaulter is twisting in the air, the ground fast approaching. Will the diver be able to pull off a rip entry?

The astounding athletic...

 are among the leading preventable causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. So back to my breath. What if instead of fighting our brains, or trying to force ourselves to pay attention, we instead tapped into this natural, reward-based learning process but added a twist?

A simple way to break a...

 we could easily let these people leave convinced they contacted the spirit world no way you can doubt it I don't think that No but for our final test we're going to have the group reach out again only this time with a little twist what I have here are some blindfold

Do You Believe? PIPE Brain...

 And sometimes a new word isn't new at all. Obsolete words gain new life by adopting new meanings. Villain originally meant a peasant farmer, but in a twist of aristocratic snobbery came to mean someone not bound by the knightly code of chivalry

Where do new words come...

 it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils. You could stare at the bright flames forever as they twist and flicker in endless incarnations. But what exactly are you looking at? The flames are obviously not solid, nor are they liquid.

Is fire a solid, a...

 And then it twists its head and looks right at us and those giant great big eyes like heart shaped face. And those black eyes because it's so ghostly and white. And it has those kind of really deep set, dark, forward facing eyes.

Finding Little Owls in...

 something creative and feel very happy and energized thanks to being encouraged I wrote and published a book called Simran's diary which is about a girl called children who goes to many twists turns and adventures along with her

A message from the next...

 to inauguration day. But I want to say to you, I will support the winner of a free and fair election no matter which candidate wins, and I will oppose any so-called winner who prevails by twisting the process beyond recognition.

What if a US presidential...

 at this age wild weasel kids would go on day trips with their mum who would show them how to hunt prey rob's got just the thing to help twist it'll be an easy target

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