Straight Line Quotes
150 quotes by 133 authors
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I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.
— David Beckham
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got…
— Sam Donaldson
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Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
— Kara Goucher
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The straight line is ungodly.
— Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall…
— Herbert C. Brown
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I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.
— Marshall Faulk
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...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in…
— Seneca the Younger
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Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than…
— Robert E. Lee
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I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line…
— David Hilbert
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Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and…
— David Foster
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It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy,…
— Louise Bourgeois
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There is no straight line to a dream.
— Jack Welch
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This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its…
— Piet Mondrian
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Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal…
— David Almond
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The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines…
— Daniel Libeskind
Who Wrote These Straight Line Quotes
133 authors contributed a total of 150 Straight Line Quotes, led by these top contributors: