Sidled Up 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. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Sarah Rees Brennan

#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. 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

#8. [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

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

Leigh Bardugo

#10. 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

#11. The best-kept secret about Don Johnson is the fact that he is a terrific actor.

Michael Mann

#12. It takes many years to be a great comedian.

Don Rickles

#13. '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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#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. I'm a lesbian and I'd rather you bully me than a thirteen-year-old kid.

Dan Savage

#18. 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

#19. Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

Sophie Marceau

#20. We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.

Vikram Sarabhai

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

J.K. Rowling

#22. Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.

Shirley Maclaine