Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
“When I got the tattoo, I knew I was drawing a crooked line between myself and society.” — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“CLOV [sadly] No one that ever lived ever thought so crooked as we.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Why would anyone think the FBI had done something crooked or criminal? — Thomas Roberts Copy Share Image
Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is! — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
“When you see the Crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell him that Locke Lamora learns slowly, but he… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have… — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
[Sylvester] Stallone and I were in a meeting for Rocky Balboa. We were laughing about something, and he looks at my mouth… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Richard, remembering, "who… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius. — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
“The bad scorn the good . . . and the crooked despise the straight." ~Greville” — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid. — Jonah Lomu Copy Share Image
The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting. — Tim Daly Copy Share Image
I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are. — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image