Crossways Quotes

#1. Not only could you travel upward toward success but you could travel downward as well; up and down, in retreat as well as in advance, crabways and crossways and around in a circle, meeting your old selves coming and going and perhaps all at the same time.

Ralph Ellison

#2. When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#3. a dream half-waking, broken and uneasy, of the small gods of small places; gods of hills and woods and streams and crossways; the gods who still haunt their broken shrines, waiting in the dusk beyond the lights of the busy Christian churches, and the dogged rituals of the greater gods of Rome.

Mary Stewart

#4. It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.

Jules Verne

#5. How can teachers teach when parents demand exceptions and cry foul every time their kid gets crossways? Sometimes we step in and advocate, but sometimes our kids are lame and need to own up. Let them feel the sting of detention, a zero, a lost privilege, a time-out. Let failure instruct them.

Jen Hatmaker

#6. Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out.

Will Carleton

#7. For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.
- Aslan, The Magician's Nephew

C.S. Lewis

#8. Yes, we can do business in Nepal and still succeed. That is what I proved.

Binod Chaudhary

#9. A LIFE IN WHICH ANYTHING GOES WILL ULTIMATELY BE A LIFE IN WHICH NOTHING GOES. ==========

Anonymous

#10. Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

Walter Johnson

#11. I did Shakespeare in college, and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.' I want to get the dialogue just spot-on.

Kristoffer Polaha

#12. I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. We live in an era now where every episode is reviewed 80 different times on the Internet by periodicals you've never even heard of.

Christopher Lloyd

#14. It always seems to be important to have at least one person in the vicinity to hate.

David Foster Wallace

#15. I had four children, we all had to struggle to get up and get educated, and they all did their part, and we all did the best we could, and that's what a family and a parent is supposed to do.

Robert Forster

#16. I have spent a fortune traveling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven't found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dew drop on a single blade of grass.

Rabindranath Tagore

#17. Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through the gates of the city into the great beyond, the wide, unbounded future of glory that is for the redeemed.

Ellen G. White

#18. Shoot for the moon. If you miss, shoot again.

Jennifer Grant

#19. We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Johann Baptist Metz

#20. When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

J. William Fulbright

#21. Now I've wrestled alotta countries!

Scott Steiner