Crooking Quotes

#1. Really, Your Grace. Crooking your little finger again? At least buy me a bauble before you try to tup me in the carriage.

Victoria Dahl

#2. You shall mark
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
For nought but provender; and when he's old, cashier'd:
Whip me such honest knaves.

William Shakespeare

#3. Stewardship is like that. I won't answer for the way another Christian mismanaged money. I won't be charged with another person's irresponsible consumption. Nor will I get credit for how another faith community shared or sacrificed luxuries for the marginalized. I'll answer for my choices.

Jen Hatmaker

#4. God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice!
Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds!
And they too have a voice, you piles of snow,
And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5. I can't thank you enough for this," Vito said. He sounded humble, for the first time Bella could ever remember. Was this really her dad? Or was this the version the aliens left behind?

Miranda Liasson

#6. USA does such a great job sort of branding and packaging their shows and you know, they move and they sort of you got to keep up, you've really got to keep up with the train.

James Roday

#7. If people-young and old-can get one thing from my book I hope it is this: that there dream do count, no matter how big or small.

April E. Brucker

#8. Humanity is defined by its struggles, not doomed by them. It is in the way we endure those struggles that we transcend our lower nature and enter a higher realm.

D.J. Niko

#9. I like David Foster Wallace. But if you type David Foster Wallace into OkCupid, it's a shitshow.

Moira Weigel

#10. Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

Christian Bauman

#11. You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.

Damon Hill

#12. For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

Robert Pinsky

#13. There will be no communism.

Francisco Franco

#14. Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another, vying in the noble race (cf. Jn. 20:3-4). And even if you be beaten in speed, win the victory of zeal; not looking into the tomb, but going in.

Gregory Of Nazianzus