Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

O love is the crooked thing,There is nobody wise enoughTo find out all that is in it.

One of his legs was shorter than the other one. But his spine was also crooked and it drew his hip up, so it evened out just enough that he didn't walk with a limp.

Jack Finney

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

William Osler

There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation.

He takes the crooked path of the unrighteous way; leaving the straight and narrow path, he weaves his way backwards.

This was a great thing on the part of the parent and the kid. Even the most honest kid could hand it to the crooked parent. They would stick it in their pocket and away it goes,

The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.

We didn?t get our big crooked number inning today. But that?s Can, that?s the hardest he?s thrown all year. It wasn?t 81 (miles per hour) or 82. It was 85, 86, which is not gas, but when you can throw the changeup and curveball at will, you?re gonna win.

Lines of least resistance make crooked rivers and crooked men.

Jerry Only

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

That way, we'll be able to raise some support from the Crooked Road and from the state to pay for the trip. That's in May and we'll be over there for two weeks.

We played just well enough to get beat. We gave up crooked numbers in two innings. We just didn't get it done today.

It doesn't matter if we have a crooked electoral council, ... We have to go out and vote.

This has been a crooked path and a lot of obstacles to get over.

Every state needs to do it and share the data. A crooked loan officer could leave Utah, for example, and come to Michigan to do that same fraud. Having a license requirement is not gong to stop mortgage fraud, but it would at least be another piece to slow it down.

A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

William Blake

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius

It's ineffective, it's misguided, it's crooked and it should be stopped.

Dontrelle Willis

It's big for our team because it gives them an extra day. We're definitely going to need them. I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

Bertolt Brecht

If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be a crooked line.

Terry Francona

It worked out well. We put a nice crooked number up early and we got to stay away from some guys in the ?pen that we wanted to.

Jeremy Affeldt

At least I didn't give up a crooked number. It was a good feeling today, I can tell you that.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.

The first inning was pretty important. Maybe that got us going a bit. It was nice to see the guys put up some crooked numbers.

Mike Piazza

You can't say it's early forever. No excuses. We haven't been able to put up a crooked number. Runs are hard to come by. We're just stuck in neutral.