As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve. — Bertolt Brecht 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
The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides. — Archimedes 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
“The shortest distance between two places is the one that gets you there.” — Suzanne Cowles 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
A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
“The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to… — Thomas Hardy 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
Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we… — Jeanette Winterson 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
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
I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work… — Sam Donaldson Copy Share Image
The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
The writing life doesn't move in a straight line. I've had successes and rejections all along the way, at every stage of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other.… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“Finally, every society develops a system of aesthetic standards that get manifested in everything from decorative art, music, and dance to the… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
“Time for me had always been measured in terms of the rising sun, its setting sister, and the dependable cycle of the… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“From my bed I can see the moon tonight, so bright and ripe and salmon pink it looks as if it might… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
“She hardly cared. They wanted her. They knew her through and through; they knew her fragility and her plurality. And they still… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“From The Self-Mover's Bible; The Longest Distance between Two Points is a Shortcut Most of us look at a map and instinctively… — Jerry G. West Copy Share Image
“A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“NOTE: Practice your most effective relaxation techniques before you begin these exercises (refer to Chapter 6 if necessary). People are better able… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“To distinguish between the curved and the straight. —Horace (ca. 30 B.C.)” — Matthew Restall 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
As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line. — Paul A. Baran 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
