Quotes About Sideways

#1. Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.

Tacitus

#2. I'm beginning to feel that I've discovered something worth knowing. There's a way out of places you want to leave, but can't. Fainting is like stepping sideways, out of your own body, out of time or into another time. When you wake up it's later. Time has gone on without you.

Margaret Atwood

#3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PAGE:

To my daughter,
if you ever date anyone like the men I write,

I will kick your *ss up between your ears and you will walk sideways for a month,

but I'll still love you.

Amelia Hutchins

#4. Oblong stones sink
slow and sideways. Shaped
by the weight of waves,
dutifully vibrating nature's
lunar-bound graces,
they wash ashore only for
closed palms to forsake them.
The cheerful will
cherish them, place them
on windowsills, or on graves.

Kristen Henderson

#5. He looked like a sexy ninja. Or a tiger ready to pounce on his prey. She just looked like she was sitting sideways on an invisible toilet. Curse the male species for making danger look so good!

Leia Shaw

#6. You do have the idea of being 'just good friends?'"
He gave her a sideways look. "For so high and honorable an estate," Roshaun said, " 'just' seems a poor modifier to choose.

Diane Duane

#7. Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

Noel Gallagher

#8. Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.

Billy Connolly

#9. A vicious monster came from nowhere and kicked the car sideways

J.M.K. Walkow

#10. Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

Karen Joy Fowler

#11. One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.

Annie Bryant

#12. I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

Lucinda Williams

#13. So here's where they put you. I didn't think they even used these cells anymore." He glanced sideways. "I got the wrong window at first. Gave your friend in the next cell something of a shock. Attractive fellow, what with the beard and the rags. Kind of reminds me of the street folk back home.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Now it all seems so simple. Events intersect free of any logic of sequence; they cover space and time in an even, translucent layer. Memory re-creates them from the back, from the front, or sideways, but to them it makes no difference.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#15. Garrett never looked straight at her, sideways yes, but never straight. Couldn't concentrate that way. Too uncomfortable. That didn't mean Garrett didn't see what was right in front of him.

Destiny Booze

#16. Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

Margaret Atwood

#17. Apart from its ill-fated name and frightening body, everything about the crab as a creature is creepy. It only moves sideways. To the right and then jerking to the left. It always looks like it's trying to avoid an awkward situation. "Uh-oh. I owe that guy money," as he sidesteps away.

Jim Gaffigan

#18. Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#20. He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.

Thomas Haden Church

#21. Do you think my Cyn would like a souvenir?" he asked Duncan.
Duncan leaned sideways to study the dripping organ.
"probably not, My lord.

D.B. Reynolds

#22. You have a steady fella?" Sam asked after a bit.
"No fella can hold me for long."
Sam gave her a sideways glance. "That a challenge?"
"No. A statement of fact.

Libba Bray

#23. It's then I smell smoke. "You even smoke while you brush your teeth?"
She looks at me sideways. "Menthol", she says.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#24. Night camp wasn't much better. The air was thick with hostility,sideways glances, and accusing stares.

Kat Martin

#25. They think the way to be a poet is to wear funny clothes and write sideways on the page.

Richard Yates

#26. I'm Irish. We think sideways

Spike Milligan

#27. My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

Michelle Franklin

#28. Fuck me sideways."
"Thanks, but you're just not my type."
"You're sure."
"I'm sure men are my type, but if I went for women, I'd do you.

J.D. Robb

#29. Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty.
Yes. No. I don't know. I ... Yes. No.

Mercedes Lackey

#30. A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

Mark Twain

#31. I swear by the self-assurance with which elderly men sitting in public tilt sideways to allow the gas to escape loudly.

Pawan Mishra

#32. His head was large, globular and oily; it sweated in all weathers; and his large round hat, set upon it sideways, looked like a bulb which had grown out of another.

James Joyce

#33. But you can't navigate a raft," he added. "It goes sideways and backward and round as the wind takes it.

Thor Heyerdahl

#34. I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

Robin Trower

#35. Sometimes, staying put, going sideways, or moving backward is actually the best way to eliminate what blocks or impedes your path.

Ryan Holiday

#36. Bad day?" "Every day is a bad day here." "Eh, this place isnt't so terrible." "How are you always cheerful?" "Alcohol," he says with a sideways grin.

Pittacus Lore

#37. She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

Colum McCann

#38. Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Angela Davis

#39. Pray note that my chest does not appear to be a toast rack in a wet paper bag.
Mort glanced sideways at the top of Ysabell's dress, which contained enough puppy fat for two litters of Rotweilers, and forbore to comment.

Terry Pratchett

#40. Glancing sideways, he said that he loved her. Then, turning rapidly, he walked away and entered a tobacco shop.

Vladimir Nabokov

#41. Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

Susan Orlean

#42. 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

#43. I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

Alexander Payne

#44. Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

Thomas Haden Church

#45. They'd put an awning up over the gravesite but the weather was all sideways and it did no good.

Cormac McCarthy

#46. If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

Margaret Way

#47. He lunged again. This time I stood my ground and he checked his leap at the last second ... and toppled sideways. I didn't hide my laugh that time. His face twisted fast, grabbed my pajama leg and wrenched, and down I went.
Bully

Kelley Armstrong

#48. I have so many children. Half of mine are the ones that just must climb the tree, must climb the mountain, must get dirty, must jump off, flip into the pool sideways because it's just who they are. So you try to give them as much guidance and prepare them but they are who they are.

Angelina Jolie

#49. For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.

Andrea Levy

#50. Mort glanced sideways at the top of Ysabell's dress, which contained enough puppy fat for two litters of Rottweilers, and forbore to comment.

Terry Pratchett

#51. round hat, set upon it sideways, looked

James Joyce

#52. Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of being well-preserved, but to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, still screaming, 'Whoo what a ride!

Theresa Hollis

#53. Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#54. I'm not the same person I was. I'm fucked up." I give her a sideways glance. "I am," she says. "You haven't even scratched the surface."
"I find that most people worth knowing are fucked up in some way or another.

Jonathan Tropper

#55. I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

Anna White

#56. A woman's severed leg had been crammed sideways in the box, the toes of the foot bent back to fit.

Robert Galbraith

#57. He's kind of cute,' Charly said. She was still sideways on the couch, face-planted in throw pillows. 'You should go for him. He has that same serious, never-say-what-I'm-thinking thing as you. You guys would be perfect together. You could just sit around being broody together.

Jessica Martinez

#58. It is the province of the tarot reader to move backwards, forwards, even sideways in time.

Sasha Graham

#59. Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous act, are still at the sideways of delusion and conquer.

M.F. Moonzajer

#60. Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

Flannery O'Connor

#61. Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between.

Michael Covel

#62. Has using that time-travel drug scrambled your wits, you don't know you've got only one tiny life and that lies ahead of you, not sideways or back? Are you waiting for last year to come by again or something?

Philip K. Dick

#63. Intelligence...[is] not marathon rac[e]: there is no fixed criteria for success, no start or finish lines -- and running sideways or backwards, might secure victory.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#64. If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#65. A consequence of boredom is that a man is forced to look either to the future or the past, or sideways into his imagination.

Mark Lawrence

#66. The birth of spring is perhaps not the best time to cross a mountain range,' observed Longfoot under his breath. Bayaz looked sharply sideways. 'Some would say the best time to cross an obstacle is when one finds oneself on the wrong side of it! Or do you suggest we wait for summer?

Joe Abercrombie

#67. I am nearly twenty-nine, so I pass you there; though I am but four feet, and not likely to grow any more, save sideways.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#68. Now the deer moved through snow, snow that blew sideways, frosting the perfectly upright walls of Detroit's dead and monumental heart, vast black tines of brick reaching up to vanish in the white sky.
They made a lot of nature shows there.

William Gibson

#69. When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.

Harvey Stanbrough

#70. No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

Virginia Woolf

#71. I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'

Krysten Ritter

#72. Apologize for not being mine when you should've been. Because Emilia, baby..." I tilted my head sideways. "It was always fucking us and you know it.

L.J. Shen

#73. Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

Mignon McLaughlin

#74. I know all about you," Char announced after we'd taken a few more steps. "You do? How could you?" "Your cook and our cook meet at the market. She talks about you." He looked sideways at me. "Do you know much about me?

Gail Carson Levine

#75. The passage from the big to the little is what makes Paris beautiful, and you have to be prepared to be small - to live, to trudge, to have your head down in melancholy and then lift it up, sideways - to get it.

Adam Gopnik

#76. She looked at him and her heart tipped sideways.

Rachel Joyce

#77. Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of music, it's easy to get sideways.

Karen Fairchild

#78. Games? Cupid struck, slapping Nico sideways into a granite pedestral Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work!
A quest that never ends. It demands everything from you
especially the truth. Only then does it yield rewards

Rick Riordan

#79. It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

Harbhajan Singh

#80. You know what I loved about 'Sideways'? Well, the wine, of course. But it was one of the few movies in which being a writer was realistically depicted. I loved how the Paul Giamatti character tries so ineptly to talk about his book.

Kristan Higgins

#81. The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle's bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The Sweet Girl slips sideways around the philosopher to examine the lives of girls and women when we were not yet human.

Marina Endicott

#82. Don't you remember anything?! There is no 'devil.' There is no 'hell.' There is only Unrest. There is no down, only sideways; the transparent beside the opaque, and a thin wall to separate them.

Leanna Renee Hieber

#83. She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

Deanna Raybourn

#84. A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

Agnes Repplier

#85. By sticking out his tongue and curling it sideways to explore the hairy jungle around his mouth, he was always able to find a tasty morsel here and there to nibble on.

Roald Dahl

#86. She'd wanted that, a grandfather. Someone who would stay. Michel had an eyetooth that turned sideways and she loved it more than anything else in the world. But someone wasn't yours because you loved a tooth.

Erika Swyler

#87. Focus on your own lane, go at your own pace, don't look sideways. Someone else's success does not have to impact you or detract from what you achieve.

Zoe Sugg

#88. The successful people seem to have blinders on. Everything is straight ahead. They go forward and know exactly what they're going to do once they've made up their mind to do it, and by God they don't look sideways.

Jack Nicklaus

#89. He's like that with everybody. Don't take it personally. Some people were just born with a pinecone shoved up their butts.
In Cooper's case, it's lodged sideways.

Molly Harper

#90. This magic felt like I had glanced at my destiny
sideways, as if I had never seen it for what it was and now the hope of what I wanted most loomed bright and lurid in the corners of my heart.

Roshani Chokshi

#91. When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much.

Louis Sachar

#92. Let The Rock understand this, he beats your ass in cage match last week and now your the number 1 contender? Well The Rock knows exactly why that is; you've got a three foot nose you turn it sideways and stick it straight up Vince's ass!

Dwayne Johnson

#93. Part of Clary wanted to lean sideways
and put her head on her mother's shoulder. She could even close her eyes, pretend everything was all right. The other part of her knew that it wouldn't make a difference; she couldn't keep her eyes closed forever.

Cassandra Clare

#94. Jasper glances sideways with mild canine embarrassment.

Peter Heller

#95. Because that's what normal people do when everything goes sideways. They pick up all their shit and make something that doesn't stink.

Mia Storm

#96. Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.

Thomas Pynchon

#97. Well, everyone's version of which way is up is different so don't try to figure that out just yet. Who cares if you're sideways for a bit? That's allowed, Hawke, and perfectly understandable.

K. Bromberg

#98. Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly, one small sideways look and I feel so ungood. Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make me feel the way I thought only my father could.

Alanis Morissette

#99. You should have more faith in fiction. It lets you come sideways at the truth, which is the only way anyone ever gets near it.

Dean Koontz

#100. Nick was still looking at him sideways, but a flush began to appear on his cheeks. Kelly swallowed hard, growing warmer. "You remember that night?" "Yeah, I do." "You ... you were, um ... impressive." "I knew you were watching," Nick murmured. "Exhibitionist." "Voyeur.

Abigail Roux