The straight word never runs away from the crooked word.

Try not to make a straight line crooked.

— Matthew McConaughey

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

— C. S. Lewis

The straight path must sometimes be crooked.

— Carole Wilkinson

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

— Charles Dickens

“The track of writing is straight and crooked.”

— Heraclitus

“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our…

— Elisabeth Elliot

God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.

— Corrie Ten Boom

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

— Stephen King

“He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.”

— Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball

I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair,…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

— Napoleon Hill

When I meet a new person, something has to be a little off for me to consider them beautiful. It could be crooked teeth,…

— Amy Sedaris

I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid.

— Jonah Lomu

Hey Sydney," she said, giving me a small, crooked smile as she entered the room. Her flashing, dark eyes were friendly, but they were…

— Richelle Mead

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has…

— Jean Paul