Bent quotes

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
-- Alexander Pope

#Tree #Twigs #Bent

I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Bent #Stoves

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

#Long #Literature #Bent

I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Complaining #Littles #Bent

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.
-- Arundhati Roy

#Gratitude #His Smile #Bent

An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your qualifications? I know exactly what your qualifications are.You bent over in the shower to pick up some soap at Eton and Harrow, like all the rest of them.
-- Auberon Waugh

#Eton #Soap #Bent

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
-- Audrey Niffenegger

#Dark #Hell #Bent

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

#Killing #Bent #Persons

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
-- Edward Norton

#Bent #Prove

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
-- George Ade

#Tree #Twigs #Bent

Noblest minds are easiest bent.
-- Homer

#Mind #Bent #Nobility

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.
-- J. Patrick Lewis

#Poetry #Shapes #Bent

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.
-- Jennifer Crusie

#Bent #Tricks #Crooked

Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.
-- John Kessel

#Sports #Shapes #Bent

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
-- Joseph Addison

#Voice #Reason #Bent

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

#Weight #Woods #Bent

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
-- Mencius

#Men #Able #Bent

The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.
-- Paul Henderson

#Shapes #Lord #Bent

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
-- Propertius

#Faithful #Mistress #Bent

She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong.
-- Rainbow Rowell

#Necks #Scared #Bent

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.
-- Robert Breault

#Justice #Broken #Bent

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!
-- Robert Ludlum

#Blessed #Shapes #Bent

If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.
-- Stephen Hales

#Helping #Bent #Chaps

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
-- Thomas Campion

#Weather #Sailing #Bent

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.
-- Bill O'Reilly

#Tree #Bent #Grows

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.
-- Patterson Hood

#Political #Grew Up #Bent

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.
-- Roger Ascham

#World #Statistics #Bent