Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. — Robert Smithson 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
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. — John Tillotson 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“There are no straight lines in nature, Gaudí was once quoted as saying,” — Dan Brown 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
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
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
As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line. — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image