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
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“The latter think the shortest distance between two points is from a blonde to a bed.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.” — Eileen Kennedy-Moore Copy Share Image
“In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
Seems like I've been here before, can't remember when I get this funny feeling, we'll be together again; No straight lines make… — Tom Chapin Copy Share Image
“He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right… — Euclid Copy Share Image
“This time, there are no tears. This time, there is only emptiness and I feel it set in the straight line of… — Kathleen DeMarco Copy Share Image
When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line,… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
When we have any function, whether it's language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren't dealing with a straight line… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I love Italy, and that's where I make my own shoes. But the French really do respect designers. Italy is totally different;… — Patrick Cox Copy Share Image
“I'd watch his smooth chest rise and fall with each steady breath, I'd watch the pulsating of his stomach when he laughed,… — Ashley Newell Copy Share Image
“In this it is similar to the problem of the solar system. By a complex, confusing, and almost contradictory mathematical process, by… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“He had let Aunt Peg live in his house and married her, so clearly he had a thing for flaky American types… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“In addition to his instinct for discerning patterns across disciplines, Leonardo honed two other traits that aided his scientific pursuits: an omnivorous… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The tractors came over the roads and into the fields, great crawlers moving like insects, having the incredible strength of insects …… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“You were just in South Dakota a couple of weeks ago,” he pointed out. “Why didn’t you get it then?” “It wasn’t… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
“When you’re a child, you think your family works in a straight line. Then you get older and find out where the… — Brando Skyhorse Copy Share Image
We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it… — Rolf Jacobsen Copy Share Image
You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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