Tilt Quotes

• Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

  Alexander Pope

  Running, Weapons, Satire

  "The complete poetical works of Alexander Pope".

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• I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

  Travis Barker

  Teacher, Play, Jazz

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• The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Ambition, Landscape

  "The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, p. 104, 1967.

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• And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Mouths, Steps

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

  Ted Rall

  Eye, Expression, Bird

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• Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

  Brit Hume

  Tv News, People, Literature

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• You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, Butterfly, Sleep

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• You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

  Robin Williams

  Crazy, Too Late, Littles

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• Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine.

  Steve McQueen

  Machines, Pinball

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• My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

  Hugh Howey

  Beautiful, Wish, World

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• The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Doe, Earth, Sun

  Vijay Seshadri (1996). “Wild Kingdom: Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Sky, Perfect

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• It takes committed, high energy, full-tilt boogie participation to have the kind of life you want.

  Nicholas Lore

  Energy, Want, Kind

  Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?

  Peter Tosh

  Axes, Earthquakes, Reggae

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• There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

  Marcel Proust

  Infinite Time, Singing, Climbs

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.424, Vintage

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• Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Stars, Blue, Orange

  Naomi Shihab Nye (2010). “Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn to some common experience, or maybe we're pulled in by the people we care about. Our friends, our families can drag us onto coasters and Tilt-A-Whirls that are really meant for them. But in the end, no matter whose rides we find ourselves on, the experience is all our own.

  Neal Shusterman

  Mean, People, Together

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
  And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
  For who would live so petty and unblest
  That dare not tilt at something ere he die;
  Rather than, screened by safe majority,
  Preserve his little life to little end,
  And never raise a rebel cry!

  John Galsworthy

  Sky, Majority, Rebel

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7107, Delphi Classics

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• There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely but unreachable.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Lonely, Art

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.38, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

  Lauren Oliver

  Time, Forever, Watches

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• Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them, they had changed - they suddenly had more space or a tilt or a door that had not been there before. New people were milling around, the floors undulated, and the sun shone newly, strangely in the windows, or through the now blasted-open ceiling, or else it shone not at all, as if having fled the sky.

  Lorrie Moore

  Dream, Past, Doors

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• Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.

  Chip R. Bell

  Games, Giving, Advice

  Chip R. Bell (2002). “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning”, p.96, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I think you can tilt too far to the side of the story where the message is just simply entertainment. So I think your goal has to be to craft in one sentence what the truth is you are trying to convey. And then you find or create a story that you wrap around that truth.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Goal, Trying

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way to make their way inside; Life doesn't rhyme. Still, life is poetry, not math. The whole world's a stage, but the stage is a meditation mat. You tilt your head back; you breathe. when your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

  Andrea Gibson

  Rain, Heart, Angel

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• We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cheating, Girlfriend, Lying

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