Wrong Side Quotes
83 quotes by 79 authors
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The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
— Billy Sunday
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I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I…
— Eddie Vedder
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I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical…
— Rufus Wainwright
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To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize…
— Robert Harris
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Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether…
— Tom Robbins
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Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you…
— Monica Ali
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To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek…
— Barack Obama
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Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and…
— Larry McMurtry
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...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the…
— Rohinton Mistry
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At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but…
— C.S. Lewis
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You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn’t you? (Acheron)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re…
— Neal Shusterman
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He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.
— Hilary McKay
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Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the…
— S E Hinton
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I looked up, but had to crane my head back, leaving the features above me wrong-side up. The clear green eyes were the same, and,…
— Karen Chance
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A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's…
— John Marsden
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I fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.
— Ellen Hopkins
Who Wrote These Wrong Side Quotes
79 authors contributed a total of 83 Wrong Side Quotes, led by these top contributors: