Walter Burns: What do you think I am, a crook? Hildy Johnson: Yes.
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
And the Crooked Man heard her dreams, because that was where he wandered. His place was the land of the imagination, the world where stories began. The stories were always looking for a way to be told, to be brought to life through books and reading....
What you call your life is not yours at all--not yours to plan, manipulate, or control, at least not very often. . . . In fleeting moments of deep satisfaction and insight, I saw the absolute truth of life: the unbroken line of love that had led to m...
She’d have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently.
Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.
If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.
I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.
I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.
His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.
I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.
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.
You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!
When my daughter Sabrina was 2 years old, the pediatrician told me it was time she quit using a pacifier because that could make her teeth crooked and even cause infections in her ears.
[first title card] Title Card: "Consider God's handiwork; who can straighten what He hath made crooked?" - Ecclesiastes 7:13
[Lennie is talking with Crooks, the Stable Buck] Lennie: The rabbits we're gonna get and I, I get to tend 'em.
Andy Dufresne: You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.
