Crooked Quotes · Page 3

“The track of writing is straight and crooked.”

— Heraclitus

“The sun snagged on his crooked skin.”

— Rupert Thomson

“The straight word never runs away from the crooked word.”

— Gabriel Okara

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

— Giordano Bruno

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

— Jack Finney

“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”

— Suzy Kassem

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

— Cassandra Clare

“From the crooked timber of humanity, never was a straight thing made.”

— Immanuel Kant

I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.

— Lauren Bacall

Misoury aint nothing struggles make me the man I am today crooked steps cant phase me

— Mario Barajas

I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Jean Paul

He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing…

— Holly Black

If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell…

— Charles Dickens

E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower, That Time upon her angel brow should set His crooked autograph, and mar the jet…

— Isaac McLellan

There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all…

— Tamora Pierce

“Out of ten listener, only one can recite accurately what he/she heard exactly from the speaker, others will tell you less, more,…

— Bradley B. Dalina

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised…

— Steve Allen

These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place…

— Maureen Johnson

The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on…

— Theodore Roosevelt

You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It…

— Cassandra Clare

When you stand out there," John continues in a hoarse voice, "keep your chin up, all right? Don't let them get to…

— Marie Lu

If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if…

— Anonymous

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth…

— Brenda Ueland

This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Life and the work on the mountain had left their mark. Everything about him was warped and crooked. His back seemed to…

— Robert Seethaler

“I think that’s what I mean when I said we all lived together in a little crooked house. I didn’t mean that…

— Agatha Christie

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's…

— Robert Wyatt

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

— Daphne Guinness

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

— Garth Risk Hallberg

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

— William Blake

We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even…

— J. Cole

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[The corporate media] agenda is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they…

— Donald Trump

I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.

— Anthony Kiedis

Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

— Bruce Lee

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

— B. J. Palmer

Crooked Hillary Clinton wants to raise your taxes up to the sky. She wants to raise.

— Donald Trump