A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.
The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.
The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.
Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.
It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.