Sidled Quotes

#1. Beaming and melting in smiles of benevolence and self-effacement, they sidled up and plumped down next to Lucette, who turned to them with her last, last, last free gift of staunch courtesy that was stronger than failure and death.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly.

Charles Dickens

#3. [the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you ugly creature," he said. "I have not used my magic in a long time, and I am very out of practice.

Robin McKinley

#4. And then Margo proceeded to lie. "He's actually my cousin," she said. Then she sidled up to me, out her hand aroud my waste so that I could feel each of her fingers taut against my hip bone, and she added, "And my lover.

John Green

#5. 'Can't really say?' Nick said, and heard, as he sometimes did, his own father's note of evasive sympathy. It was how his family sidled round its various crises; nothing was named, and you never knew for sure if the tone was subtly comprehensive, or just a form of cowardice.

Alan Hollinghurst

#6. Rob sidled up next to me. "You don't have to come," he told me. "We can do it."
Glaring at him, I said, "I'm coming. For Heaven's sake, I put on a dress and you lot think I'm a girl.

A.C. Gaughen

#7. Her moment came. Nobody was looking. She sidled quickly across the deck and lost herself among the crates that clustered at the base of the boat's shuddering, discoloured funnel. The air tasted of salt and guilt, and she felt alive.

Frances Hardinge

#8. The clown's eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.

Isaac Asimov

#9. Jared sidled up. He was not very good at sidling; he was more of a loomer.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#10. I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that there'd be no rest, there'd be no forgetting. Is like telling mourners round the graveside about resurrection, they want the dead back.

Derek Walcott

#11. Killian's low, sexy growl slid over her seductively as he sidled up behind her and nuzzled her ear. I want to go on record that I was not in favor of putting on clothing, especially when all I can think about is taking yours off.

Sara Humphreys

#12. Tao sidled up to Ryan as they approached the buffet. "Quick question," the Head Enforcer asked quietly. "What would happen if I asked Makenna out?"
With a calm he didn't feel, Ryan said, "I'd rip out your throat before the last word escaped your mouth."
Tao nodded. "Thought so.

Suzanne Wright

#13. Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

A.A. Milne

#14. Moonstones and diamonds," said Griphook, who had sidled into the room without Harry noticing. "Made by goblins, I think?

J.K. Rowling

#15. You wouldn't know a good time if it sidled up to you and stuck a lollipop in your mouth.

Leigh Bardugo

#16. The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry.

J.K. Rowling

#17. People think that I play effortlessly. I remember doing a record date with Bill Evans and afterwards he said to me, you make it sound so easy but when I get right up next to you you're working hard and making it sound easy!

Stan Getz

#18. Fantasy and reality often overlap.

Walt Disney

#19. Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

J.G. Ballard

#20. It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.

Charles Darwin

#21. The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Rebecca West

#22. Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

Maria Montessori

#23. There is more than one evolution. There are cosmological, geological, biological and sociological evolutions. The scientists of evolution say so. When I think about man, religion and art, I do not see any of those evolutions.

Alija Izetbegovic

#24. At the factory, I deal with ex-cons, substance abusers, and sexual harassers. And I'm not just talking about my mom.

George Lopez

#25. The only way to think clearly is to know that you can't change someone else but you can change you.

Anonymous

#26. The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

Shane Warne

#27. The Easter egg which was not found
contained a letter from the hen who laid it,
saying Fuck your kids,
What about mine?

Shay Caroline