Quotes About Sideways

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

Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.

As they walked he glanced sideways and at last asked, You are the one they call Pug? If Pug hadn't already been surprised by what they had encountered, he was now openly taken aback. Yes, he said. I'd thought you'd be taller, mused the Pantathian.

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability.

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.

Well, that's the end of that, I reckon. You know what, Furious?" And he grinned sideways at West. "I'm getting to like you, boy.

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

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.

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

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways--when you began writing me dizzy letters about Alexander, I didn't ask if you were in love with him, I asked what his favorite animal was. And your answer told me everything I needed to know about him--how many men would admit that they loved ducks?

Parents' imaginations build frameworks out of their own hopes and regrets into which children seldom grow, but instead, contrary as trees, lean sideways out of the architecture, blown by a fatal wind their parents never envisaged.

She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.

A woman of wire had laid herself down, her scream traveling the street, till it fell sideways like a rolling coin starved of momentum.

Stage 3 top as the upward advance loses momentu m and starts to trend sideways.

then lost consciousness, and pitched sideways into the water. A grim-looking Alice switched off the wireless. The three

Once [the calves] were a year old, you started tiptoeing around them, you started looking at them sideways with disgust and embarrassment like a guest in your home who just farted.

The average MMA guys have a boxer's stance which makes it easier for a wrestler when they try and take you down. I tend to stand sideways and that gives them only one leg to shoot for, it tends to make it more difficult to try and take me down.

There are photos of me with my Pony trucker hat, sideways. Truly, awesomely, horrible.

I think there comes a time with a quarterback, especially when things go a little sideways, that players begin to try to do things a little uncharacteristic of what they've done in the past.

Occasionally, fans will ask me to go on their shoulders, and we'll do a sort of Hodor and Bran thing. That's always good fun. But one guy did it, and he really wasn't an expert at picking people up, and I was kind of going sideways on his back holding onto his neck, and then I sort of fell off. But that was fun.

Afghanistan's story, backwards or sideways, is not confined to the Americans or the English.

The sound of the click, then the sound of Victoria's scream, then the sound of Victoria falling sideways to the floor.

Light exploded behind Felisin's eyes as she sprawled sideways.

Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.