Famous quotes containing the words twist and/or rates:
“He is the bully on the Left Bank, always ready to twist the milksop’s arm.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)