“The shortest distance between two points is the line from me to you.” — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
“Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental. — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
“Are we nothing but heel skin and blisters? Traveling a straight line to the end of our lives?” — Ramona Ausubel Copy Share Image
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
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… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Every action will ripple across the universe. As you move, the whole universe moves with you. You don't just walk on a… — Jhing Bautista Copy Share Image
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Most people live their lives looking straight ahead. Moving in a straight line. Eyes xed on their golden dreams. Well thats how… — London Elektricity Copy Share Image
“These books...," she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“In a library in Missouri that was covered with vines Lived thousands of books in a hundred straight lines A boy came… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“Most of the streets in Buchanwick were paved, but none followed the straight lines most soft-foot towns insisted on toeing. White Hawk… — L.H. Leonard Copy Share Image
Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead… — Violeta Parra Copy Share Image
Your path in life is not a straight line. It is a series of twists and turns, hills and valleys, both smooth… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
“From the shadow length in Alexandria, the angle A can be measured. But from simple geometry (“if two parallel straight lines are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Things don't just happen, they have reasons. And the reasons have reasons. And the reasons for the reasons have reasons. And then… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
“They see the straight line of my jaw along the length of their thighs and they see how it fits, the geometry… — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
“She belonged to me," He said simply. "She was , you know, all the things I wasn't. And I was all the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The suggestion that the body really wanted to go straight but some mysterious agent made it go crooked is picturesque but unscientific.… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“Footsteps from the stairwell startle him out of the past. He turns around as Emma's mother takes the last step into the… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“The interpretation of apparent long-distance action by means of continuously propagating effects was vigorously asserted by Isaac Newton. In his wake, the… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“While we think of the boundary between what is legal and what is not as a clear dividing line, it is far… — Samuel Arbesman Copy Share Image
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there… — Benjamin De Casseres Copy Share Image
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“You folk are so finicky about time, living it in straight lines like that.” — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again. — Britt Ekland Copy Share Image
