The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and its rarely a straight line. — Eileen Kennedy-Moore Copy Share Image
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles. — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Did you suppose that fornication was the straight line upwards that I'd been trying to find?” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
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. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“Mike was right: the pattern of life isn't a straight line; it crosses and recrosses, drawing in and tying together other lives,… — Benedict Freedman 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
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
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
“Wherefore is there ice and snow, chilling winds and bitter nights? Is it to mock the earth for its sunshine? No, not… — W. Waldemar W. Argow Copy Share Image
“People're always buried facing west, so at the end of time when the Last Trumpet blows, all the dead people'll claw their… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you're under a bunch a stress and you're in a straight line and you're not willing to go off, sometimes you… — Billy Gunn Copy Share Image
I have been told that... time doesn't flow in a straight line in my films. It goes round in a circle. Sometimes… — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
“It's a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Stories move in circle. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
“How many times his (Port's) friends, envying him his life, had said to him: "Your life is so simple." "Your life seems… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“When I exited the bathroom this time, Marlboro Man was standing right outside the door--just as he’d been at his grandmother’s house… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“Grief is not linear. People kept telling me that once this happened or that passed, everything would be better. Some people gave… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“One method that Einstein employed to help people visualize this notion was to begin by imagining two-dimensional explorers on a two-dimensional universe,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“When people look at my work, they often say, “Your picture is so good. I can’t even draw a straight line.” I… — Alice Provensen Copy Share Image
Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image