33 Distortion Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us. Eve Ensler

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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us. Noam Chomsky

Truth Democracy History Class Training Events Minority Ideology Lying Hidden Distortion Seek Facilities Through Veil Provides Western Privileged Current Behind Leisure Which Interest Us Presented

I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there. Jeff Beck

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. David Bohm

It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion. Dayananda Saraswati

God Great Before Other Sight Distortion Photographs Kinds Proper Take Put Remembrance Pictures Make His Them Persons Us Images

The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions. Michael O'Brien

God Natural Law Our Distortion Deformed Entirely Written Leading Eradicated Cannot Which Actions Beings Hence Gravely Conscience Consciousness

At age 14, you are just beginning to work out who you think you are, and being famous is a huge distortion of reality, and it's not healthy for a young person to be considered more special than their peers. So, I would say it hindered my self-esteem but in later years gave me a great perspective that I wouldn't have if I hadn't experienced that. Amanda de Cadenet

Work Great Me You Age Reality Perspective Healthy Beginning Young Think Gave Peers Later Considered Say Distortion Out Would More Self-Esteem Years Huge Than Person Just Being Famous Experienced Being Famous Young Person Work Out Special Who

Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion. Andrea M. Ghez

The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of every state, including states where not many people, for whatever reason, have chosen to live. That type of redistribution is a distortion of our economy. Bill Foster

Government Business People Wealth Whatever Live Every State Type Our States Distortion Status Economic Federal Federal Government Economy Redistribution Real Question Real Question Where Whether Should Reason Many Including Chosen

I've been so lucky to have done two spacewalks. If you looked at your wristwatch, I was outside about 15 hours, which is about 10 times around the world. And, you know, there's a whole time dilation, distortion thing. Chris Hadfield

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We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. Chuck Jones

Art Change Innovation Confuse Beneficial Distortion Must Useless

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet. Corey Taylor

Love Heavy Metal Writing Guitar Every String Distortion Collision Write Songs Almost Almost All Combined Because Metal Rock Doing Hear Been Effects Vibrations Heavy Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Turn Really Hard Hard Rock Even

When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics. Dimebag Darrell

Sometimes First Strings Hook Distortion Out Boxes Up Get Just Experimenting Which Frying Helped Bring Started Two

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making. Ian Williams

Guitar Think String Distortion More Results Making Sound Source Lot Began Than Closer Which Twang Now Play Played

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else. Jamaica Kincaid

Life Language Will My Life Become Nothing Else Distortion Out One Of The Things Something Something Else Remains Normal Same Just Happen Turn English English Language Now Things Started

Listen to the great guitarists of the Fifties. They didn't do that nasty sort of industrial distortion. They played musical compositions as solos - Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Django Reinhardt. There wasn't a bad note in any of those solos. I listened to that and stayed with those rules. Jeff Beck

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself. Jerry Saltz

Soul Heart Cafe Vision Thought Radical Down Distortion Van Van Gogh Spine Structure Color New Make Him Felt Still His Intellect Density Itself Send Gogh Intensity Pathos Dynamic Whether Bridge Paintings Starry Night

We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There's just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want a big sound. We do use some guitar effects, distortion and delay. Playing cello with distortion sounds so good. Luka Sulic

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art. Marcel Duchamp

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Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century. Marcel Duchamp

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. Mark Rothko

Living Intimate Scale Distortion Would Would-Be Rather Since Pictures Institutional Opposite Been Normal Than Intense Meaning Decorative Painted

The vast bulk of Murdoch's news output, including the huge majority of any falsehood and distortion, is simply the spontaneous product of his highly commercialised newsrooms. It sells. Nick Davies

News Distortion Vast Output Simply Highly Spontaneous Majority Bulk His Falsehood Huge Sells Any Product Including

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people. Olivier Martinez

Dreams Time You People Vision Strong Better Think Imagination Distortion See Only Put Idealistic Know Most Person Want Suddenly

You know the Einstein waves can be thought of as a distortion of space and time. But the way we see it, we see it as a distortion of space. And space is enormously stiff. You can't squish it; you can't change its dimensions so easily. Rainer Weiss

Time You Change Space Thought Waves Way Dimensions Easily Distortion See Know Stiff Space And Time Einstein

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