Wrong End Quotes
34 quotes by 29 authors
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves…
— Neal Stephenson
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Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent,…
— D.E. Stevenson
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Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.
— Rachel Cohn
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I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on…
— Salman Rushdie
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Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know…
— Terry Pratchett
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It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.
— J D Salinger
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what…
— Carson McCullers
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Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
— John Coltrane
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Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested…
— Ben Shapiro
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Goofy, you're talkin' through the wrong end of the phone again!
— Mickey Mouse
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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
— Dr. Seuss
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Sometimes Id think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
— John Coltrane
Who Wrote These Wrong End Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 34 Wrong End Quotes, led by these top contributors: