Crooked Quotes

• For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Democratic
  • Noses
  • Crooked

• We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Money
  • Taken
  • Paradise

• Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • People
  • Lawyer
  • Lines

• There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Character
  • Needs
  • Rulers

• In a crooked mind even the right thing gets crooked.

  

  Arsenie Boca
  • Mind
  • Right
  • Thing

• All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Circle
  • Crooked

• If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Happy
  • Die
  • Crooked

• The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Disease
  • Jumping
  • Cravings

• There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Distance
  • Lines
  • Crooked

• Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is!

  

  Milo Ventimiglia
  • Running
  • Yelling
  • Crooked

• The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • Life
  • World
  • Progress

• The straight path must sometimes be crooked.

  

  Carole Wilkinson
  • Sometimes
  • Path
  • Straight

• One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Wine
  • Lips
  • Delicate

• If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

  

  David Bowie
  • Art
  • Empty
  • Crooked

• She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. And his smile was pretty crooked, really. But it was as if something had changed inside Tally's head, something that had turned his face pretty to her.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Feelings
  • Cutting
  • Changed