Bent Quotes

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

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

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.