Sideways Quotes

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.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Forward, Talent, Discipline

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.
Ernest Hemingway

Down, Country, Small

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.
Harvey Fierstein

Family, Father, Everything

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.
Susan Orlean

Children, Parents, Human

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
Gene Hackman

Hero, Between, Coward

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
Alexander Payne

Great, Wanted, Film

I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.
Kylie Minogue

Able, Used, Open

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

Fact, Hair, Feet

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.
Thomas Haden Church

Nothing, Using, Vessel

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.
Thomas Haden Church

Feeling, Winning, Pretty

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.
Robin Trower

Night, Down, Through

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!
Busta Rhymes

Good, Real, Hell

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.
Meshell Ndegeocello

Love, Beautiful, Greatest

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.'
Amy Adams

Time, Girl, Parents

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.'
Krysten Ritter

Turn, Tongue, Definitely

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.
Ariel Dorfman

Forget, Humanity, Free

I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that.
Christie Brinkley

Wish, Face, Guess

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