“Did you suppose that fornication was the straight line upwards that I'd been trying to find?” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“He kissed her like he was drawing a perfectly straight line. He kissed her in India ink.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles. — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. — William Henry Maule Copy Share Image
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You… — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in… — Rene Crevel Copy Share Image
Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“For him, the world was now a picture knocked crooked. He could barely judge the ground beneath his boots and the stars… — Andy Davidson Copy Share Image
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines In two straight… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending - the punch line… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“Because I tried all those voice options, of course. Haven’t you?” She looked at him expectantly, as if scrolling through all the… — Elle Aycart Copy Share Image
“While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. THe lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Do More. Be More. You were made for more! Take all the chances and leaps. Every single step of the journey is… — Chinonye J. Chidolue Copy Share Image
“A consequence of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism is that light rays move in straight lines. Thus it makes sense to use light… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to… — Lygia Fagundes Telles Copy Share Image
“But if some mind very different from ours were to look upon some property of some curved line as we do on… — Roger Joseph Boscovich Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image