Top 1200 Straight Line Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

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

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

I'm an old-fashioned English lit. man. Straight down the line - it's George Eliot, it's Dickens, it's Dr. Johnson, it's Jane Austen.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending - the punch line - in a sense contradicts the original assumption by refusing to follow what had seemed a reasonable train of thought. Many jokes involve that simple matter of leaping outside what had appeared to be the rules of the game at the moment.

"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight.

Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

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

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.

I guess I'd like to do a straight-up drama someday down the line. But I just want to keep working.

My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill, Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known.

I don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline.

Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

It's the one with that panel of ultra-chichi folks. The one called 'What's My Line?' It sends me straight up the wall. I call it 'The Snob Family.'

That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.

My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one area of interest to another. There is no ultimate destination - no finish line to cross, no final conclusion to be reached. It's the way I feel about dancing - you move around a lot, not to get somewhere, but to be somewhere in time.

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.

If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.

Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.

Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

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

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

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

He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.