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2635 Straight quotes by 1905 unique authors

Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without… — Lewis B. Smedes
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them… — Hermann Weyl
The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form… — Gus Van Sant
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance… — Sun Myung Moon
I honestly think that a Pavlik fight would be easier than Jones because styles make fights. He's one dimensional, comes in straight lines, I love… — Joe Calzaghe
Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The plan to send… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people… — Haruki Murakami
We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also… — Thomas W. Horton
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. — Ludwig Bemelmans
That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie: Come away, human.… — Maggie Stiefvater
Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you. — Alexei Sayle
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and… — George Sand
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight… — Dorothy L. Sayers
We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink,… — Eartha Kitt
I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class… — Adrien Broner
Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that… — Betty Smith
So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to… — Graeme Simsion
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional… — Alice Hoffman
And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes of Nature and… — A. D. Gordon
You think when someone you love passes away, everything becomes clearer, that your priorities and perspectives align in a way they've never aligned before because… — Rachel Wade
When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a… — Bill Richardson
No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive. — Lady Gaga
Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the… — Paul Klee
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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