Sideways Quotes

• The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

  Gene Hackman

  Courage, Hero, Differences

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• Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.

  Billy Connolly

  Looks

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• Walls turned sideways are bridges.

  Angela Davis

  Leadership, Wall, Bridges

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• Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird.

  Isaac

  Sometimes, Feels

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• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Funny Inspirational, Octopus, Discipline

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• But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

  Knut Hamsun

  Work Out, Sometimes, Everything Works Out

  Knut Hamsun (2011). “The Ring is Closed”, p.71, Souvenir Press

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• It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

  Patricia Briggs

  Thinking, Littles, Complicated

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• Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

  Noel Gallagher

  Regression, Progression, Backwards

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• Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?

  Tite Kubo

  Mind, Bleach, Normal

  "Bleach". Manga series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001 – August 22, 2016.

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• He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

  Ovid

  Simplicity, Swim, Might

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• When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

  Judy Blundell

  Sadness, Parent, Bereavement

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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

  Spring, Shadow, Creeps

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.190, Anchor

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• There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Graduation, Stress

  "Lean in, speak out". Address to graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 28, 2014 at Tercentenary Theatre, news.harvard.edu.

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• And when Jace was ten years old, Valentine killed him. Michael, I mean." "That sounds like something he would do," said Luke. His tone was neutral, but there was something in his voice that made Clary look at him sideways. Did he not believe her? "Jace saw him die, " she added, as if to bolster her claim. "That's awful," said Luke. "Poor messed-up kid.

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Believe, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Firsts, Snooping

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.73, A&C Black

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• My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Beautiful, I Love Him, Doors

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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 trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Heart, Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

  Walter Kirn

  Moving, Touching, Age

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• Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between.

  Michael Covel

  Running, Home, Games

  Michael Covel (2011). “Trend Commandments: Trading for Exceptional Returns”, p.81, FT Press

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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 cuckoo clock style of architecture.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks

  Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

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• I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

  Alexander Payne

  Italian, Film, 1960s

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• Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Winning, Feelings, Nominations

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• I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

  Kylie Minogue

  Chinese, Legs, Splits

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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 water.” Naked. I know the drill.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Smell, Water, Hot

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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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 looked back out at the water. I didn’t expect any more acknowledgment than that. Fang never- “You almost gave me a heart attack,” he said quietly. “When I saw you, and all that blood . . .” He threw a small rock as hard as he could down the beach. “I’m sorry.” “Don’t do it again,” he said. I swallowed hard. “I won’t.” Something changed right then, but I didn’t know what.

  James Patterson

  Beach, Sorry, Heart

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