Zitat des Tages über Krumm / Crooked:
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.
I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.
I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
I have had unattractive heroes - broken noses, scars, crooked teeth. You want to give them something that is human. My heroines struggle with being too short or fat or old. Some are older than the heroes. You try to cover all spectrums.
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
I did not come to Augusta to provide lip service. I came to work for the Maine people. I also came to Augusta to root out crooked politicians and government corruption.
I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.
No public man can be just a little crooked.
I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
