Best Crooked Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.”

“With great difficulty, I persuaded my dentist to saw one of my teeth level with the others. He thought it might kill the tooth, but it didn't. I wanted it done because I was doing a lot of television with food and I saw myself eating with these horrible crooked teeth.”

“I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.”

“We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.”

“I have been offered other roles on television but I don't think I'll be able to enact those crooked characters.”

“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.”

“I was six years old before I realized that there was something wrong with me... But I did have this crooked left leg, and my left foot was turned inward.”

“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.”

“Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.”

“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.”

“There was one player who was better than Pele. It was Garrincha. He had one leg crooked, the other one straight, normal. How did he do all those things with such difficulties? He was a paralytic! And the way he played! Much better than us all!”

“From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.”

“I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.”

“You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.”

“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.”

“Don't think because I'm a positive dude, I'm going to always say something nice. If you come at me crooked, one too many times or if too many people came at me crooked too many times in a row, then they're going to get it. I don't always exercise that self control and I don't regret it either.”

“Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.”

“No public man can be just a little crooked.”

“I'm not crooked, and I want to help people.”

“Anybody that worries about somebody suing them, that means that they're so crooked that they sue people, and they think people are gonna sue them.”

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”

“I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.”

“Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.”

“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”

“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.”