Quotes about Sideways

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. Votes: 8

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways. Votes: 6

I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways. Votes: 6

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer Votes: 6

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. Votes: 6

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. Votes: 6

I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time. Votes: 6

I'm Irish. We think sideways Votes: 4

Walls turned sideways are bridges. Votes: 4

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film. Votes: 4

Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression. Votes: 4

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel. Votes: 4

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past. Votes: 4

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. Votes: 4

Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways. Votes: 4

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now. Votes: 4

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane. Votes: 4

That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways. Votes: 4

Man, he wasn't going to need a stress test anytime soon. If his heart could get through a kiss from her, he could probably run a marathon. While dragging a car behind him. Sideways to the road. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that. Votes: 2

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth. Votes: 2

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways. Votes: 2

It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow. Votes: 2

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I? Votes: 2

You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates. Votes: 2

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.' Votes: 2

I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that! Votes: 2

My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him. Votes: 2

I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median. Votes: 2

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay. Votes: 2

Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.' Votes: 2

People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways. Votes: 0

Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways. Votes: 0

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways Votes: 0

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways. Votes: 0

When the society missteps, it's the youth who first fall sideways. Votes: 0

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways. Votes: 0

Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state? Votes: 0

The most important thing for old guys is never start going down the stairs sideways. Votes: 0

Shine it up real nice, turn it sideways, and stick it straight up your candy ass! Votes: 0

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. Votes: 0

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall. Votes: 0

Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts. Votes: 0

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways. Votes: 0

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways. Votes: 0

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it. Votes: 0

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it? Votes: 0

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.. Votes: 0

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel. Votes: 0

Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared. Votes: 0

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life. Votes: 0

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now. Votes: 0

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways. Votes: 0

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families. Votes: 0

Try not to look sideways to see how others are viewing our lives but to look up to see how heavenly father sees us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag! Votes: 0

I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I've fucking thought of it. Votes: 0

Witihin seconds the headhunter had lost control of his car and it squealed, sliding sideways right into several other cars.Cool!' said the Gasman." Votes: 0

Witihin seconds the headhunter had lost control of his car and it squealed, sliding sideways right into several other cars. Cool!' said the Gasman. Votes: 0

Weve got to do everything in the world to make sure we kill Frank Gores head. We want him running sideways. We want his head sideways. Votes: 0

Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The world tilted slightly sideways. 'I think I need to sit down.' The floor seemed like the best option. It was close and he'd already proved that he could hit it. His legs folded. Votes: 0