From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board…

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

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

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

— Jonah Lomu

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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

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

— Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball

I'm talkin' about a good girl gone bad crooked world, wrong path.

— Anonymous

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

— Daphne Guinness

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

— Robert Stone

“CLOV [sadly] No one that ever lived ever thought so crooked as we.”

— Samuel Beckett

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

— David Harsanyi

John Kerry described his Republican critics as 'the most crooked, lying group I've ever seen.' Now, that's saying something, because Kerry's both a lawyer…

— Jay Leno

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Between the whiskers scraggling down his neck and the now-crooked glasses, he could have been the Black Allen Ginsberg.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg