Sideways Quotes
135 quotes by 111 authors
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My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family…
— Harvey Fierstein
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.
— Kylie Minogue
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I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials.…
— Apolo Ohno
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Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.
— Susan Orlean
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
— Alexander Payne
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Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather…
— Lewis Carroll
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When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.
— Margaret Atwood
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There was something I needed to say. “Sorry. About before.†Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable, as always. He…
— James Patterson
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Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?
— Tite Kubo
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I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said…
— James Joyce
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Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly…
— E E Cummings
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Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented…
— Douglas Adams
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You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’†He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,†Roshaun said,…
— Diane Duane
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So here’s where they put you. I didn’t think they even used these cells anymore.†He glanced sideways. “I got the wrong window at first.…
— Cassandra Clare
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The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re…
— Bruce Sterling
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The world tilted slightly sideways. 'I think I need to sit down.' The floor seemed like the best option. It was close and he'd already…
— Tanya Huff
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You smell good, too,†said Patch It’s called a shower.†I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
Who Wrote These Sideways Quotes
111 authors contributed a total of 135 Sideways Quotes, led by these top contributors: