Top 1200 Straight Line Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Form follows function straight to hell.

I am straight up, unapologetically pop.

I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.

I'm not a liar. I'm a pretty straight up person.

I come straight from hell, Cell 23

I shoot straight from the hip and do not play games.

I don't think I could write a straight drama.

I'm a quick wit, straight to the point, no nonsense.

What I do will be straight up. Management knows that.

I'm not very strong mentally, I'm straight forward.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.

I can't do the frappuccino. It's too sweet. I need it straight.

Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

I found out water can be drunk straight.

If I crave a burger, I'm like, 'Straight to In-N-Out.'

Orangutans look straight into your soul.

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.

I graduated from college and went straight into a job with MTV.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

I think people sometimes get the wrong impression when they're like, Oh, well, so-and-so was straight and then she was gay, and now she's straight again, you know? But it's like, how many times do I have to kiss a woman before I'm gay? Everybody wants to label people. Sometimes you just fall in love with somebody, and you're really not thinking about what gender or whatever they happen to be. It think that if I happen to fall in love with a woman, everyone's going to make a big deal out of it. But if I happen to fall in love with a man, nobody cares.

If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

A lot of straight people think I'm nuts.

A lawyer should have her facts straight.

Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

I have straight hair. If I don't blow it out, it's not good.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Straight ahead you can't go very far.

In life go straight and turn right.

I keep my head straight toward my goal.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Stokes gets a straight yellow for that challenge.

Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.

There's a difference between lying and not being straight.

The «way», who will pass it on straight and well?

The straight path must sometimes be crooked.

How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.

Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.

It's a privilege to be an All-Star for the second straight year.

There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path.

I wish I was Freddie Mercury, straight up.

If the father is not straight naider will be the son.

Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Peace be upon him who follows the Straight Path!

I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves about writing... my pet peeve about reading scripts is when they give you a line reading and there'll be a line but next to your character's name it'll say 'very angry'. But I'm like: "Well, I'll decide that actually!" So, there's little things like that. That's a slight pet peeve.

I couldn't care less if someone is gay or straight.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.

The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not imply that one understood implications, background, or connections. Telegraphic discourse permitted no time for historical perspectives and gave no priority to the qualitative. To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing of lots of things, not knowing about them.

The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.

And why is it the best looking ones are always straight?

Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

See, I'm a very straight forward person.

When you get my 'Supreme Clientele,' it is straight bars.