The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that. — Abe Burrows Copy Share Image
“There are no straight lines in nature, Gaudí was once quoted as saying,” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line. — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. —Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers” — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“The shortest distance between two places is the one that gets you there.” — Suzanne Cowles Copy Share Image
A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing… — Henrietta Swan Leavitt Copy Share Image
I believe, in a film, everything doesn't need to go like a bullet or in a straight line. Everything doesn't need to… — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
“She walked in slowly, trying to maintain her balance and keep to a straight line but Nadine knew the tell tale signs.… — Lily Zante Copy Share Image
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
The human heart would never pass the drunk test… If you took the human heart out of the human body and put… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“emotions were far from linear. They were circles and waves and dots and triangles. But they were rarely a straight line." Chapter… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“No story, including this one, is a straight line unraveling smoothly from start to finish. Every story is a tangle of stories… — Ann Tatlock I'll Watch the Moon Copy Share Image
“It isn’t until an adult criticizes the picture and makes derogatory comments … that children lose their confidence and stop drawing. If… — Alice Provensen Copy Share Image
“Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles and straight lines. Ice! Oh, why do they all drip? You cut yourself opening a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Become the artist who designs your own life. While others look at life’s straight lines—their height and depth and width—bend the lines… — Franklyn James Copy Share Image
“Destiny does not lead us in a straight line. As if to some silent music, people and events come into our lives.… — Rosemary Gard Copy Share Image
“Truth is never a straight line; it is a circle that will take you back to what you know, in order to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what form, the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Now we are going to make a new-way path. So you take a shovel, you take a ground-haker, you take a hairpin… — Sherry Ruth Anderson Copy Share Image
“It felt warm sitting around the dhuni. I felt connected to the sadhus, to the temple, and even to Shiva. Is this… — Terry Tarnoff Copy Share Image
“Real yoga practice is to control the senses and, after such control is established, to concentrate the mind on the Nārāyaṇa form… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share Image
“Laura Carmichael is Edith: During the war, Edith learns to drive the family car. "I haven't got a driving license, so I… — Jessica Fellowes Copy Share Image
“I don't know what day it is, I had to check the paper I don't know the city but it isn't home… — One Republic Copy Share Image
“This story is one for which some people will have to suspend their belief. If it wasn't me and this wasn't happening… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“A space that is empty in the sense that it doesn't contain masses is nothing but a special case of the above.… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“To distinguish between the curved and the straight. —Horace (ca. 30 B.C.)” — Matthew Restall Copy Share Image
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
“I am a firm believer that there is rarely a straight line between good and evil.” — Nicholas Denmon Copy Share Image
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I never wanted people to laugh at me. I never wanted the funny lines. I wanted the straight lines. — Demond Wilson Copy Share Image