Crooked Quotes - Page 4

• If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers.

  Dana Cowin

  Struggle, Apples, Looks

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

  Arthur Miller

  Distance, Two, Evil

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• In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

  Stephen Leacock

  Women, Average, Moral

  Stephen Leacock, Alan Bowker (1973). “The social criticism of Stephen Leacock”

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• To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eye, May, Faces

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.510, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

  Lewis Blaine Hershey

  Honesty, Smart, Stupid

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• I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

  Jack Steinberger

  Noses, Faces, Hateful

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• Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light.
  Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light.
  Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Flower, Light, Purpose

  Allen Ginsberg (1963). “Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960: Pocket Poets Number 18”, p.62, City Lights Books

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• Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

  David Harsanyi

  Political, Mysterious, Turns

  "The Libertarian Case for Palin" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2008.

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• My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.

  Kam Williams

  Taken, Lobbyists, Politician

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• Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Littles, Never Trust

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The New Nationalism”, Best Books on

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• For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

  John Lyly

  Roots, Tree

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.242, Manchester University Press

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• The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.

  John Updike

  Children, Tomatoes, Paper

  John Updike (2007). “The Witches of Eastwick”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• When I was a teenager, my self esteem was really low. But when I stood next to Yunho and his crooked teeth, I felt better.

  Jaejoong

  Self Esteem, Teenager, Teeth

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• For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

  Pico Iyer

  Home, Light, Luxury

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• A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very strong and sturdy. Swimming hath helped to make them so, but only because thou hast had the will to do it. Fret not, my son. None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.

  Marguerite de Angeli

  Beautiful, Strong, Lying

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• In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

  William Saroyan

  People, Events, Ridiculous

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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• Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.

  Gerald Durrell

  Humble, Butterfly, Eye

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• The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

  Ella Leya

  Tea, Noses, Conversation

  Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.80, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard the wolves howling behind the house and remembered how glad I had been to be human.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  House, Middle, Certainty

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.567, Scholastic Inc.

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• An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Science, Iron, Lightning

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.119, Yale University Press

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• Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima

  Jan Morris

  Venice, Over You, Domes

  1960 Venice.

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• To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true course. If, however, he happens to look back to see where he has been, his chances of straying are increased. The results are crooked and irregular furrows...Fix your attention on your...goals and never look back on your earlier problems....If our energies are focused not behind us but ahead of us--on eternal life and the joy of salvation--we assuredly will obtain it.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Eye, Goal, Generosity

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• The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.

  Orison S. Marden

  Strong, Cutting, Men

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• He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Vision

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• May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never be entangled in the snares of the wicked that go round about, or bound with the chains of your sins. May the Word in you never be smothered with the cares of this life and so make you unfruitful: but may you walk in the King's Highway, turning aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, but led by the Spirit through the narrow gate.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Kings, Children

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