38 Askew Quotes
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Famous Askew Quotes
Cock your hat - angles are attitudes. — Frank Sinatra
The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up. — Billy Sunday
I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better. — Tibor Kalman
It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes. — Gilles Deleuze
We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information. — Sayings
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. — Bertrand Russell
There are two sides to every question. — Protagoras
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. — Juan Ramón Jiménez
The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up. — Leymah Gbowee
If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything? — William Golding
Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle. — Tupac Shakur
The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us. — Tony Blair
Question everything generally thought to be obvious. — Dieter Rams
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer. — Jacob Bronowski
People Writing About Askew
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Frank Sinatra |
132 | 3307 |
 Billy Sunday |
104 | 2957 |
 Tibor Kalman |
26 | 345 |
 Gilles Deleuze |
69 | 1244 |
 Sayings |
6895 | 535 |
 Bertrand Russell |
1131 | 8798 |
More Askew Quotes
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
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
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 Trogdon
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
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
There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew. — Desmond Tutu
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
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
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
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
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
If I walk into my house and something is askew, I can't do anything until I fix it. It's so burdensome to live that way. — Natasha Gregson Wagner
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
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
There’s nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It’s when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew. — Demi Moore
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
I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath. — A. A. Gill
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
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
She tries to turn too soon, and the ladder smacks into Fernando's shoulder. "Oh! Sorry, Nando." The jolt knocks his glasses askew. He smiles at Christina and takes the glasses off, shoving them into his pocket. "Nando?" I say to him. "I thought the Erudite didn't like nicknames?" "When a pretty girl calls you by a nickname," he says, "it is only logical to respond to it. — Veronica Roth
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
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
You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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