Top 1200 Straight Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.

Hard to believe lightning can strike twice, but it surely did. The moment Caitriona Balfe came on screen, I sat up straight and said, ‘There she is!’ She and Sam Heughan absolutely lit up the screen with fireworks.

The wear time on clothing for plus-sized women is half the life span of a straight-sized woman's clothing. Straight-sized women's bras can last them three, six months? Our bras don't last as long as a straight-sized woman's bras normally do because we have more movement; we have more weight.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

Yes, prices go up in health care. They have been doing so for 80 straight years.

Even as a young girl, straight women loved me. Straight women like me a lot more than lesbians do. Isn't that weird?

This is what I've dreamed about man. Putting this jersey on is a straight honor. Me being from Houston I'm giving it my heart and my everything because this is what I grew up watching and grew up wanting to be a part of. It's just an honor to play for this team.

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.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word

I don't ever think about being a straight man in fashion. It's fine from my perspective. There are a lot of straight men in fashion, believe it or not. But it's fine. Journalists seem to be really interested in it.

No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.

Darius Rucker is straight up the most charming, handsome man you have ever met in your entire life.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Gay men greet each other just like straight guys do... If one of the straight guys saved the other one's life.

Don’t start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)

So many times we take things like eyesight for granted cause it's so natural. We wake up and we see, we wake up and we walk. It's just so natural for us. So, for me not to be able to see for 2-3 days straight, it was hell.

Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.

Straight-news pieces are supposed to be just that: straight news. They are not supposed to be biased, and a longtime practice for ensuring this is to ask all subjects of a story for their comment.

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers.

If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?

I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.

I go to sleep at night, wake up the next day and get straight back to the gym.

My brownness is something that I can't hide. There are some straight-acting or straight-passing queer people out there, but I'm not one of them. This is something I would rather not have to hide.

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.

As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.

I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

I wasn't ready to manage straight away. You have a few players who stopped and managed a first team straight away and were successful, and then there are the other ones who take different pathways. And I think what was important for me was to understand what I really wanted to do.

You are brought up to realise that there will always be tough times in football and that nothing is ever straight forward.

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

I was always apologizing for yesterday's behavior and I got tired of it. I feel it's good being straight. As I did when I first got high. It's a high to be straight because I was getting loaded every day.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

I would look straight back at the quarterback thinking the ball's coming straight to me... and as soon as I looked back, the ball's going right over my head.

I came up in Australia and I was really lucky that straight out of school I was hired in a play. It was a production of 'The History Boys.'

I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.

I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. I think what I'm going to do is vary my output, do some straight science fiction and some straight fantasy that doesn't involve mythology, and composites.

The reason that we don't have happy hours up here is because you never know when something might actually go sideways, and so we always have to be prepared in a worst, worst case scenario to jump on our spacecraft and go home. So, we have to keep it pretty straight and narrow while we're up here.

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

When you go into a situation, and you're honest and straight-up about something, you put all your cards on the table.

If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.

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

We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.

Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.

I would say that Futurama: Bender's Big Score requires a lot of concentration to watch. It's a very complicated time-travel story. Part of the joke on that was just that the complexity would be over the top. This one is a more straight-forward science-fiction story, I would say. Alien invasion and people running in terror, that kind of thing, with a slight twist of there being an inappropriate physical relationship with the big octopus monster. We've got a straight-up science-fiction movie.

Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!

If anyone said anything sideways about my children, I would literally be in jail like, just straight up.

I'll be straight with you. It's not easy to sell tickets in Vegas. I'm up against Celine Dion and Britney Spears.

Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet.

Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.

Trannies dress up like women, then try to bang straight guys. They're the adrenaline junkies of gayness.