#crooked

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

— Robert Wyatt

#crooked #did #early #gangster #get

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#been #broken #called #clear #crooked

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#crooked #never #path #reached #straight

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. ↗

— Lewis B. Hershey

#crooked #fellow #first #get #got

No public man can be just a little crooked. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#just #little #man #public #public man

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body. ↗

— Heather Locklear

#baby #body #braces #crooked #face

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. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#between #crooked #distance #line #lines

The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between ideas and the truth of the surrounding world. God knows this, and it infuriates him. It terrifies him. ↗

— Autumn Christian

#atheism #god #humanity #religion #the-crooked-god-machine

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#crooked #god #makes #straight #thought

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#banks #carried #crooked #deals #enormous