Steeply Angled Quotes & Sayings

Tea Cake went out and wandered around. Saw the hand of horror on everything. — Zora Neale Hurston

Even though they were staring at each other across a busy street, the little old lady and the gang of adolescent skinheads might just as well have been nose to nose. They stared. No one blinked. No one backed down. This little old lady had never in her life backed down before mere adolescents.
Her daughter had what was perhaps a better grasp of what was perhaps reality. "Mama," she said as she shifted her bag of groceries to her other arm, "Come on. Let's go. They're skinheads. Probably up from Bircher country. — Barbara Ardinger

'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the ... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer. — Quentin Tarantino

The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate. — Roger Angell

I don't think I'm the best lyricist; it's hard for me to express feelings through words. — Ty Segall

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain. — John Oliver

I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon) — Christopher Paolini

God, according to all the great spiritual traditions, cannot be comprehended by the finite mind but can nevertheless be known in an intimate encounter with his presence - one that requires considerable discipline of the mind and will to achieve, but one also implicit in all ordinary experience — David Bentley Hart