Crookery Quotes & Sayings

I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it. — Hunter Hayes

In the fall of 2012 I did drop some weight, and then it all came back on and then some, just like the average person who deals with this goes through. — Tom Reed

If you understood everything I said, you'd be me — Miles Davis

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. — Oliver Evans

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief. — Ronnie O'Sullivan

I'm not a fan of "finding your purpose." I'm a fan of "living with purpose. — Jon Acuff

There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have. — Louis O. Kelso

God is infinitely wealthy. If you see someone with something you want, don't be jealous. Just say to God, "Father if you can do that for him, You can do that for me too! — Paul Silway

How ludicrous were all attempts at defining the self — Krys Lee

You smell like the woods. — Barry Lopez