A Quote by Rachel Johnson

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.

Rachel Johnson

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Rachel Johnson
British - Author
Born: September 3, 1965

The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

Frederick Lenz

The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

Theodor Adorno

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Archimedes

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Madeleine L'Engle

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

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.

Confucius

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.

Bruce Lee

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

Maria Edgeworth

The straightest line between a straight distance is two points.

George Carlin

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

Will Durant

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.

Arthur Miller

When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.