Cockeyed Quotes

#1. This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.

Langston Hughes

#2. I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

Betty White

#3. I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.

James Howe

#4. Yew? Not roight in the 'ead? Jus' let me tell yew somefink yew cockeyed idiot. Oi moight call yew daft sometimes, but that don't mean yew're crazy. If'n yew're not roight in the head, then Oi'm Mussolini's fairy godmother.

Peter St. John

#5. One more cockeyed optimist thrown under the reality bus.

Deborah Coonts

#6. I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.

Anthony Kiedis

#7. From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered one of their own.

Dean Koontz

#8. I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.

Grace Paley

#9. But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#10. It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

Robert Breault

#11. Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

Ellen Goodman

#12. For the past few weeks I have been laboring under the assumption that if people thought I was dead, they would stop annoying me and leave me alone.
I didn't respond right away. I examined his statement from every angle, and while I admired the logic, the cockeyed optimism left me cold.

Gary Reilly

#13. If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.

Unknown Author 909

#14. It's like saying to a drowning man: What a pity, what a pity! If you had only let me teach you how to swim! Everybody wants to right the world, nobody wants help his neighbor. They want to make a man of you without taking your body into consideration. It's all cockeyed.

Henry Miller

#15. In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy

Norbert Wiener

#16. We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. There is this place of insanity that lives deep inside everyone.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. It makes me feel the way I need to feel.

Snoop Dogg

#19. A great hang is mandatory. But in all of my years as a traveling musician, on a whole it's been pretty damn magical. There have been a couple duds along the way, but most time, I'm in awe of the guys who want to play on my records.

Shelby Lynne

#20. I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

Robert Wilson

#21. Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.

John Dingell

#22. But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY

Edward Carpenter

#23. Shall we try this the traditional way?

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#24. Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it.

Mustafa Mahmud

#25. He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad.

Phil Harris

#26. If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

David Hume

#27. This was distressing. She felt like she'd done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was sensible.

Maggie Stiefvater

#28. This was just too fucking weird. Fucked up sprinkles on a slice of psycho shit cake.

Karina Halle

#29. How do we bring glory to God? The Bible's short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.

Sinclair B. Ferguson