Obliquely Quotes

#1. The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely.

Irvin D. Yalom

#2. The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.

Paul Theroux

#3. Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

Suzanne Vega

#4. Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.

H.M. Tomlinson

#5. Howard adores Sam's looks. He loves the strong cut of jaw made satin with thickening peach fuzz, loses himself in the green eyes. Howard stares at them like a lover, but always obliquely. (Sometimes we watch our son from a distance. "I wonder what he's thinking," Howard will say.)

Chandler Burr

#6. The thing about songwriting," John Dogg was saying to someone, "is that you can address things obliquely, but no matter. You can't get away from the content that is the essence of the form. All songs are about unrequited love." "Except 'Green Onions,' " Ronnie said. "Which isn't about love at all.

Rachel Kushner

#7. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Edward Hopper

#8. Sometimes immense things, like war and death and aging, are best seen from the corner of the eye and written of only obliquely, with tremendous lightness.

Lauren Groff

#9. The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

Tennessee Williams

#11. If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

Jim Butcher

#12. Success, like happiness, is best pursued obliquely.

Maurice Holt

#13. It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Andre Gide

#14. He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

Thomas Browne

#15. If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.

Drew Houston

#16. Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect.""

"p. 267: Chade to Fitz

Robin Hobb

#17. Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

Florence King

#18. Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

Frank Moore Colby

#19. Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not obtained.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#20. If you're paying attention to human interactions - to the gap between who we are and who we think we are, or the gap between what happened and what we remember - you're going to end up thinking (obliquely or otherwise) about what it means to act ethically, and I think that's all to the good.

Roy Kesey

#21. He knows only what is right in front of him; she is aware of every incoming sensation that glances obliquely against her soft, fragile core

Steve Martin

#22. My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

Langston Hughes

#23. The rain stretched obliquely through the dull atmosphere in liquid spines, unbroken in continuity between their beginnings in the clouds and their points in him.

Thomas Hardy

#24. In order to keep liking Nick (as opposed to loving him which was completely non-negotiable) Alice sometimes had to look at him obliquely or with her eyes half closed or through a pin hole on a piece of cardboard. Straight on would burn her retinas.

Carol Anshow

#25. Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, "Well, isn't she full of herself," smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.

Anne Lamott

#26. Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. Death is the greatest form of love.

Charles Manson

#28. Janie: Did you ever sell drugs?
Cabel: Yes. Pot. Ninth and tenth grade. I was, uh ... rather troubled back then.
Janie: Why did you stop?
Cabel: Got busted, and Captain made me a better deal. Janie: So you've been a narc since then? Cabel: I cringe at your terminology.

Lisa McMann

#29. When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.

Rebel Wilson

#30. Why do our kids have to show us what gun control is all about?

Ani DiFranco

#31. I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

George Ryan

#32. I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.

Teemu Selanne

#33. When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

Malcolm X