Sideways Quotes
135 quotes by 116 authors
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards,…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all,…
— Agnes Repplier
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Try not to look sideways to see how others are viewing our lives but to look up to see how heavenly father sees us.
— Carl B. Cook
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Shine it up real nice, turn it sideways, and stick it straight up your candy ass!
— Dwayne Johnson
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The successful people seem to have blinders on. Everything is straight ahead. They go forward and know exactly what they're going to do once they've…
— Jack Nicklaus
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Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled…
— Thomas Haden Church
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I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect…
— Ellen Meloy
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The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The…
— Marina Endicott
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Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction.…
— Marcus Sakey
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There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can’t…
— Kabir
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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked…
— Beatrix Potter
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I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking…
— Busta Rhymes
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Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Weve got to do everything in the world to make sure we kill Frank Gores head. We want him running sideways. We want his head…
— Gregg Williams
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Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.
— Karen Joy Fowler
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Pride does not look up to God and care about what is right. It looks sideways to man and argues who is right. Pride is…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.
— Tacitus
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I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.
— Robin Trower
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Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle…
— Reid Hoffman
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth..
— Walter Kirn
Who Wrote These Sideways Quotes
116 authors contributed a total of 135 Sideways Quotes, led by these top contributors: