Top 70 Quotes About Askew
#1. What was it about Halloween that gave every girl license to dress as slutty as possible?
Kim Askew
#2. Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.
Andre Gide
#3. As if grabbed by strong arms that were not there, he felt himself being lifted. Raising skyward and spinning, he fought to regain orientation. The winds were holding him and carrying him higher. Spinning him sickeningly, senses askew, his focus was being lost.
Stephen Craig
#4. There are nights when the world is completely askew because he's gone.
Chloe Neill
#5. Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to the charm of horrors new.
Nick Gordon
#6. There was a battered desk with its drawers open and askew, like a lady of the night with her heels kicked off and pantyhose around her ankles.
Jen Frederick
#7. My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.
Ed Askew
#8. If your gut is telling you something is askew, chances are it is.
Janet Pucino
#9. Skye: Did you really mean what you just said up there?
Craig: Yes ... and so much more. Three years too late, I guess.
Skye: It's never too late.
Kim Askew
#10. O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#11. What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in various combinations, make the styles: mixing and matching painting methods and ideas.
Ed Askew
#12. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in mid-air by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.
Virginia Woolf
#13. Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.
Ed Askew
#14. Buri rode along with her own Group Askew and two more Rider Groups, the Sixth, called Thayet's Dogs, and the Fifteenth, Stickers.
Tamora Pierce
#15. One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do ... And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.
Sam Walter Foss
#16. I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.
Reggie Watts
#17. We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.
Stephen L. Carter
#18. Was falling in love ever worth the inevitable heartbreak?
Kim Askew
#19. A heart can only break so many times. I'm not saying it fails entirely: just that it mends the wrong way. It warps. It's stitched together loose and askew and it doesn't work as it should.
Gillian Philip
#20. God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble ...
Anne Askew
#21. I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.
Ed Askew
#22. You didn't have to be in love to understand the magnitude of love when you looked at it.
Kim Askew
#23. You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.
Robert Gottlieb
#24. There's something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew, disoriented. There's more truth in a ripple of water than in a clear day.
Ellie Lieberman
#25. This line of reasoning could have frightened him, but it did not. He gained a certain strength from it. Because, after all, what can be imagined can be achieved.
At the head of the stairs, he paused to straighten a mask that had been knocked askew.
Mal Peet
#26. If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.
David Bowie
#27. She had forgotten, and the world was lying askew around
Jerry Pinto
#28. What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
David Bowie
#29. I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.
Keith Carter
#30. I used to think that forgetting was the path to healing, the path to forgiveness. But I was wrong.
Kim Askew
#31. Everything that's sexy - mussed hair, straps that fall off the shoulder, a sweaty glow on the face - is a bit askew, yes, but touchable.
Charlotte Roche
#32. There was something unbearably sexy about cars at night, Ronan thought. The way the fenders twisted the light and reflected the road, the way every driver became anonymous. The sight of them knocked his heartbeat askew.
Maggie Stiefvater
#33. It's hard to say what exactly I like about New York. It's so vast. It seems to go on and on, but that's an illusion. Still, it's fun to be here, especially since I don't drive.
Ed Askew
#34. When you bury your head in the sand, at least you don't get slapped in the face.
Kim Askew
#35. Why did things always have to feel so fleeting?
Kim Askew
#36. It is better to be a well-rounded Christian than a stoic, hypocrite.
Lisa Askew
#37. The minute you think you can outsmart life, that's when life will outsmart you.
Kim Askew
#38. The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.
Kim Askew
#39. Why isn't there a holiday for all the sad sacks of the world who might actually need a crappy gift or schmaltzy card to cheer them up? I'm waiting for the "Let's All Mope!" day or a "Life Sucks" three-day weekend. Aren't we the ones who really need that box of chocolate?
Kim Askew
#40. I'm a good girl who wears her halo stylishly askew.
Donna Figueroa
#41. I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
Daniel Bruhl
#42. Valentine's Day. The most ridiculous Hallmark excuse for a holiday ever.
Kim Askew
#43. Everyone is looking for the next big thrill to feel alive, chasing the unattainable.
Kim Askew
#44. Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs
Willard Fiske
#45. Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
William Least Heat-Moon
#46. I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".
Anne Askew
#47. And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
Michel De Montaigne
#48. Isn't being in love reward enough without needing a special day as a bonus?
Kim Askew
#49. If it is so easy to help people in real need through no fault of their own, and yet we fail to do so, aren't we doing something wrong? At a minimum, I hope this book will persuade you that there is something deeply askew with our widely accepted views about what it is to live a good life.
Peter Singer
#50. You know that the formula is askew when even if the formula is working, it's not; when even if everything's going right, something is wrong.
Neale Donald Walsch
#51. Whoever said it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all was a moron.
Kim Askew
#52. No one can ever just accept their life for what it is.
Kim Askew
#53. We didn't get anything done! She looked around vaguely, then wandered along the corridor to the
Rilla Askew
#54. There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
Desmond Tutu
#55. Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.
Gordon T. Smith
#56. All the most fascinating subjects leave...no...shadows. But we keep watching and waiting just in case.
R.J. Askew
#57. The door partly opens, and Deacon rests his hip on the frame and looks me up and down as if he has no idea who I am. He's wearing gray sweatpants with CORVALLIS UNION HIGH SCHOOL printed up the leg, his hair all askew. He's shirtless, whether for effect or for comfort I'm not sure.
Suzanne Young
#58. But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.
Sylvia Plath
#60. The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.
Ed Askew
#61. O Josephine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has sat down by mistake.
Victor Hugo
#62. I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.
Jason Segel
#63. Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.
Ed Askew
#64. They say time flies when you're having fun, but boy does it move at a snail's pace when you're worried or depressed or anxious.
Kim Askew
#65. There are things that are right in this world and things that are wrong, and it's up to people to choose.
Kim Askew
#66. Solaris a blaze of freedom raging.
R.J. Askew
#67. But little Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often askew,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Still you are blest, compared with me!
Robert Burns
#68. He paused in his gyrations to give Schwartz a high five. "I'm wearing my cap askew," [Owen] said.
Chad Harbach
#69. With his hair sticking out in all directions, his suit askew and his tie full of stains he sat there talking, his eyes aglow, they were really glowing, and I will always remember it, for it was pitch-dark outside, the rain was beating against the windows, it was Christmas Eve in Norway 1986,
Karl Ove Knausgard
#70. I don't like sleeping in a different place every night, but I do like meeting new people.
Ed Askew
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